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/VRoom.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 [Christopher K Jones] is Senior Vice President and COO of [Virtual Workroom].com, Inc

[Counsel Connect] links:

• Dec98 article says [American Lawyer Media]'s [Law News Network] will replace [ALM]'s current web sites, [Law Journal Extra] and [Counsel Connect] ([Law News Network] now redirects to [LawCom])

• 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 Lawyer Media] - 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 Lawyer Media]

• "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 Lawyer Media]. 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 [CourtTV], as well as his 20 percent stake in [American Lawyer Media] and [CourtTV]'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 Lawyer Media]. The service migrated to the Web but lost millions of dollars before being shut down after Time Warner ([TWTC]) sold [American Lawyer Media] 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

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