Internet Attorneys: Experts

Dozier Internet Attorneys

The founder of the firm, John W. Dozier Jr., is rated by other lawyers and judges as having reached the height of professional excellence and the highest levels of skill and integrity (AV rating), is a "SUPER LAWYER" (Law and Policy Magazine) in the law of the Internet, and is a "legal elite" among Virginia attorneys for 2007 in intellectual property. John is licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of Virginia, and he appears nationwide as lead counsel in Internet litigation matters.

Following are some of Mr. Dozier's thoughts on the risks associated with running an online business:

When I started my first ecommerce company in February 1994 all of my friends thought I was crazy to leave a successful law practice and pursue my vision of the future...the ability to conduct financial transactions in "cyberspace". There were less than 1,000 websites online worldwide and secure online payment processing was still three years away. The risk/reward analysis I went through before launching my first ecommerce business was thorough. I considered the rewards. Then I considered the risks.

Our country is built on risk. Our marketplace rewards risk when it leads to innovation and adds value. During the late 1990s the venture funds and investors gave great weight to the concept of a "first mover advantage", the belief that the first company into a marketplace had a unique opportunity for success and domination. On the other hand, others reminded us that "pioneers get arrows in their backs". Pioneering the future, whether starting a new business, implementing new technology, launching a new website or affiliate program, or implementing a new online marketing or sales technique, requires the use of a risk/reward analysis. How do you appreciate the risk of growing your business without understanding the laws that define your risks? The answer is that you can't.

We all make risk assessments every day throughout our life. It is part of the decision making process we learned at a very early age, and developed over the course of our lives. In the world of online business, while the rewards are high, the risks are sometimes hard to see, and even harder to understand. The Internet is maturing, and online companies are learning by experience; while risk used to be acceptable in the minds of fledgling businesses in a fledgling industry, survival in the future will depend upon the ability of small businesses to mature in both judgment and practice.

Internet Attorneys for the Business of the Web

Dozier Internet Law is a pre-eminent top rated (AV) Internet attorneys firm and is the largest Internet attorneys firm in the world specializing exclusively in the law of the Internet. Whether you have a copyright, trademark, defamation, commercial email, hacking, online contract, or other web business issue, we can assist you. As Internet attorneys, it is all we do, every day, day in and day out. Many of the subject areas have a dedicated attorney who only handles that very narrow area of law. The web is all we do, all day long, every day!

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