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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.
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. [...]
Given the nationalization (and globalization) of various elements of our society over the past sixty years (e.g., WalMart, network television, interstate highways, Hollywood), the legal profession stands in stark contrast. While, to many, the crossing of a state border is an artificial construct, states have maintained a hold on the practice of lawyers, regulating anyone, [...]
Reading an article concerning Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, my interest was piqued in that I had lunch yesterday at a bar function with a lawyer who described his experience in meeting with him as a summer law clerk at a local firm. Many commentators express with seeming disdain that Justice Thomas is not active [...]
While I normally shy away from salacious topics (or I try to), The Telegraph reported that a court in France awarded $14,000 to an ex-wife because her former husband failed to engage in ample sexual relations during their 21 year marriage. Apparently, he was tired and had health problems. The court ruled that “A sexual [...]
As a fan of Green Day, I read with amusement that its front man, Billie Joe Armstrong, says he was kicked off of a Southwest Airlines flight Thursday night for wearing his pants too low. He reported this via Twitter, saying, “Just got kicked off a southwest flight because my pants sagged too low! What [...]
I came across an article today in which the children (who appear to have had a privileged upbringing) were suing their mother for “bad parenting.” Slights included calling a daughter at midnight to come home, failing to take a child to a car show, requiring that a child buckle up, not sending care packages while [...]
A former first year law associate filed a fourteen count complaint against his former firm seeking $77 million. Some thoughts. In the law suit, the associate claims that: “[The firm] had told [him] it eschews artificial hierarchical structure, then refused [him] an assignment because it would be ‘unfair to the other associates.’ It told [him] [...]
Companies can become overly aggressive in their efforts to obtain and enforce intellectual property rights. For example, two days after special operations forces killed Osama Bin Laden, as my colleague Donna Chmura noted, Disney filed federal trademark applications for “SEAL TEAM 6” for toys, handheld computer games, Christmas stockings, Christmas tree ornaments and decorations, snow [...]
