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Internet Fraud
Alex T. Roshuk ('Theophan Paine')

Date: July 29, 2008
Time: 12 noon (Pacific Daylight Time)
Location: SLBA Office

Continuing education credits available:
1 hour California MCLE (Provided by Fitz2 Consulting, provider no. 14547)

Cost: Free



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Course Description

Internet fraud raises challenging issues of prevention, enforcement, and international law. Mr. Roshuk will discuss the latest developments in Internet fraud and regulation, and enable attorneys to spot and address these issues in their clients' matters.



Alex T. Roshuk is a New York State attorney. He has two law degrees from McGill University, Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada (B.C.L./LL.B., 1997) and has been practicing law in New York City since 1998 advising businesses, individuals and not-for-profit organizations in transactional and litigation related matters. He was the first legal advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (Wikipedia) from 2003-2005 assisting with the organization's tax exempt status application to the IRS, trademark applications, and various copyright related issues.

Prior to becoming a lawyer Mr. Roshuk worked in the entertainment industry as a film eidtor, radio announcer, television producer, and director and as an administrator and/or director of numerous not-for-profit media arts organizations in the United States and Canada. He studied electrical engineering at Princeton University in the 1970s. He currently lives and works in Park Slope, Brooklyn.