Practice Management

The Wall Street Journal brought it up. That demonstrates the importance of this growing practice area. I do not much play video games any more, so I am not up personally on the niche, but nobody can deny how big the industry is.  According to the WSJ it is a $50 billion industry and growing.

The Los Angeles Times has covered it as well. The passions of gaming and law are just irresistible for too many lawyers.

There are a number of legal seminars dedicating to introducing lawyers to the practice. One that just recently past, for example, was the Gamer Technology Law seminar by Law Seminars International. And, expensive as well. Only a successful emerging area could get away with charging $1,245.00 for a two day seminar.

Seth J. Steinberg actually left the job as counsel to George Lucas to practice gaming law.  How crazy is that?

Where there is so much money, trademarks, intellectual property and the like there is going to be litigation. There is going to be abundant contract work. There is going to be employment law issues. There is going to be non-disclosure issues. There is simply a need for lawyers.

Read about some of this area at Law Of The Level blog, The Game Attorney, Video Game Law Blog, Law Of the Game, Patent Arcade, Game Politics, Video Game Law, and Lawyers In A Gamer's World, to name a few.

I would like to give a special shout out to Jay Moffitt's Gamers Rights Lawyer blog.

Do you like gaming and law. Then you need to delve in deeper and find out if this niche might be right for you as well.