David R Johnson

general links:

• undated EFF bio ...has served as both Chair of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and as EFF's Senior Policy Fellow.

• 1996 edge.org digerati chapter and bio notes Cyberspace Law Institute

• 2002 bio ref : Leading the cyberlaw portion of the conference are David Johnson, co-founder of Virtualworkroom.com, founding director of the Aspen Institute Internet Policy Project and founding president, CEO and chairman of Counsel Connect, an online meeting place for the legal profession...

• David Post page mentions writing with David R Johnson in 1998

• 1997 email from David R Johnson uses Counsel Connect address

Virtual Workroom links:

• http://www.novaforum.com/novaforum_revised.html

• <http://www.themanagementor.com/EnlightenmentorAreas/it/WA/V Room.htm>

• 2002 release about Quova adding Don Telage to board: He is also co-founder and Chairman of Virtual Work Room, Inc., an Internet Web Conferencing company.

• 2001 email mentions Don Telage http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc07/msg01085.html

• Jun2001 page notes ChristopherKJones is Senior Vice President and COO of Virtual Workroom.com, Inc

Counsel Connect links:

• Dec98 article says American LawyerMedia's Law News Network will replace ALM's current web sites, Law Journal Extra and Counsel Connect (Law News Network now redirects to Law Com)

• 1998 page reviews Law Journal Extra as From the publishers of the National Law Journal, LJX (http://www.ljx.com) provides one-stop access to a variety of resources, from news to research, from legal memoranda to technology reviews, with more than 34 sections devoted to specific practice areas. A recent merger with Counsel Connect will combine the two services during 1998.

• 1997 page says As a result of the New York Law Journal and American Lawyer merger, Law Journal Extra & Counsel Connect will be combining

• 1995 article says American LawyerMedia - the folks who bring you American Lawyer magazine, Court TV and a spattering of state legal newspapers - led the charge two years ago with Counsel Connect. (A Joint Venture later made the name Lexis Counsel Connect.)

• 1995 Wired article says In 1993, Counsel Connect was born (Lexis was added to the name and the service a year later)... The price was slashed - the current rate is $15 a month, plus connect charges of $15 per hour after the first half-hour and a cap of five hours per month. David Johnson, a lawyer at Wilmer, Cutler, & Pickering, and an Electronic Frontier Foundation board member, got involved and pushed Brill and others to think of the service as a center for dialog and debate.

Cyberspace Law Institute links:

• David R Johnson writings , uses Counsel Connect email address.

American LawyerMedia

• Jul'2007: Incisive Media buys American LawyerMedia from UsEquityPartners.

• "about" page says American Lawyer Media, Inc., (www.americanlawyermedia.com), was formed by U.S. Equity Partners, L.P., a Private Equity investment fund, sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP. In 1997, U.S. Equity Partners acquired the legal publishing division of American Lawyer Media, L.P. and the National Law Publishing Company (publishers of National Law Journal, etc.), creating the nation's largest legal journalism organization.

• 2000 profile of Steven Brill says In 1989, Time Warner acquired the holding company, which was now called American LawyerMedia. Two years later the media megalith backed Brill in the founding of Court TV... (in 1997) Brill accepted $20 million from Time Warner and walked away. He gave up his options in Court T V, as well as his 20 percent stake in American LawyerMedia and Court T V's online component, Counsel Connect.

• 1999 Industry Standard article says Law.com site is a descendant of Counsel Connect, an early proprietary online service for lawyers operated by American LawyerMedia. The service migrated to the Web but lost millions of dollars before being shut down after Time Warner (TWTC) sold American LawyerMedia to investment bankers Wasserstein Perella in 1997. San Francisco-based Law.com will relaunch in December.

Aspen Institute:

• 1998 paper describes him as former director of the Aspen Institute Internet Policy Project