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Jeff Geiger serves as Firm Counsel and Chair of the Business and Professional Liability Litigation Team and on the Intellectual Property Law Team, concentrating his practice on issues concerning complex civil litigation, legal ethics, intellectual property law, media law, legal malpractice defense, cyberlaw, technology law, eminent domain and real property litigation. An adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Richmond, Jeff teaches courses in alternative dispute resolution, cyberlaw, identity theft and intellectual property law. In the course of his practice, Jeff speaks, writes, and counsels clients on legal ethics, protecting intellectual property rights, Internet law, and lawyers' professional liability. Virginia Business Magazine has listed Jeff as being among the Virginia Business Legal Elite, as selected by his peers, for the last five years. Jeff has successfully managed many complex litigation matters and has served as lead counsel and local counsel in numerous trials in state and federal courts and administrative agencies throughout Virginia.
In the latest occurrence of juror idiocy, a St. Petersburg television station reports that Jacob Jock (real name) sent a FaceBook friend request to a female civil defendant (characterized as both young and attractive) during the course of trial. The judge was not amused and Jock was dimissed from the jury. Not content with his dismissal, Jock [...]
Regulation of the Internet is almost always in vogue. The Luddites are scared of the technology and the politicians want to control it. Recent proposed legislation has attempted to address copyright holders’ concerns over piracy of their digital content. Specifically, the PROTECT IP and the Stop Online Piracy Acts aim to enhance powers for both [...]
Madonna’s latest song title prompted a good article on trademark law by one of my colleagues in North Carolina, Donna Berkelhammer. As you will see, the owner of the “Girls Gone Wild” franchise, sent a cease and desist letter to Madonna as to her singing a tune by the same name. In my humble opinion, the [...]
My colleague, Andrew McRoberts, posted recently on a proposed amendment to the Virginia Constitution designed purportedly to protect property rights. Purportedly, you say? Yes. I am all for property rights and embrace fully the notion that no one can take my property without paying me for it. And there’s the rub. You are entitled to [...]
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS POST DESCRIBES LEGAL MATTERS HANDLED IN THE PAST BY OUR ATTORNEYS. OF COURSE, THE RESULTS WE HAVE ACHIEVED DEPEND UPON A VARIETY OF FACTORS UNIQUE TO EACH MATTER. BECAUSE EACH MATTER IS DIFFERENT, OUR PAST RESULTS CANNOT PREDICT OR GUARANTEE A SIMILAR RESULT IN THE FUTURE. My colleague, Mikhael Charnoff, [...]
Having graduated from high school at Patch American High School in Stuttgart, Germany, and obtaining a minor in German at William & Mary, I have a strong affinity with all things German (and it does not hurt that my last name is Geiger). Understandably, there is a great degree of pressure to “internationalize” your business [...]
As previously reported, I had the opportunity last night to moderate a discussion at the William & Mary School of Law on “P.R.O.T.E.C.T. IP Act: What Is It? Will It Pass? What Would Be Its Impact?” The seminar was sponsored by the Virginia Bar Association Intellectual Property and Information Technology Section along with a host [...]
Here, are two recently reported stories highlighting the vagaries of FaceBook and other such social media outlets. First, enter Dana Thornton. Apparently, she was not fond of her ex-boyfriend and decided to create a FaceBook page for him. She is accused of creating a fake profile of her ex-boyfriend, a Parsippany, New Jersey narcotics detective, [...]
From the title of the blog, I should probably amend it to ask whether a lawyer “may” blog as opposed to “can” blog. I jest because I find that application of the rules governing lawyer advertising seem designed for fifth graders and zombies with a pulse (obligatory Halloween reference). It would be remiss if I did [...]
Looking forward to participating in the Virginia Bar Association’s Fall Career Panel and Intellectual Property CLE Presentation at William & Mary School of Law on November 10, 2011. For the first half, I am a speaker on a Career Panel geared to law students. In the second half, I am moderating a panel on “P.R.O.T.E.C.T. [...]
