Brent Britton

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Brent C.J. Britton
Brent C.J. Britton
Brent Britton
Born 1966
Bangor, Maine
Education SM, MIT Media Lab;
JD, Boston University
Occupation Attorney

Brent Cabot James Britton (b. 1966), noted Intellectual property lawyer, was influential in establishing the legal framework that ushered in the late 20th Century Internet boom in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, California.

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Born and raised in Bangor, Maine, Britton earned a BA in computer science from University of Maine in 1989, an SM from the MIT Media Lab in 1991, and a JD from Boston University School of Law in 1994. He is the only Medialab alum ever to become a practicing lawyer.

Britton founded and co-published one of the first ever online magazines, NutWorks, from January 1985 through March 1990.[1][2] In 1992 and 1993 he was the first volunteer law clerk for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In 1994 he founded and served as Editor in Chief of the Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law, the first all-digital law journal.

In 1997 Britton co-founded Britton Silberman and Cervantez, LLP, one of the first law firms devoted exclusively to internet companies. The high-flying firm became well known in legal circles for applying specialized intellectual property and venture capital knowledge to Internet-based start-ups, as well as among the digerati for ushering in the era of the lavish "dot com party." [3] Britton Silberman and Cervantez was acquired by Thelen Reid & Priest in 2000.[4] He has also been Partner and Of Counsel with several other major international law firms, and is now of counsel the Tampa, Florida office of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. He is a recognized expert in laws relating to virtual worlds and online communities, including virtual crime. He is often quoted, teaches, and publishes, on developments in law and entrepreneurship in the fields of technology law, science, and art.[5]

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  1. ^ Peter Flynn. Nutworks. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.
  2. ^ Peter Flynn. Nutworks Electronic Humor Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.
  3. ^ "Young, Hip, Cool and Fun", San Francisco Daily Journal, April 14, 1999. 
  4. ^ Victoria Slind-Flor. "Big Times for Small Firms", National Law Journal, July 10, 2000. Retrieved on 2007-06-24. 
  5. ^ "Ideas to money", Gulf Coast Business Review, June 21, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-06-24. 

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