The Law of Electronic Commercial Transactions

Raymond T. Nimmer is the Leonard Childs professor of law and former Dean at the University of Houston Law Center, where he also codirects the Intellectual Property and Information Law Institute and directs the Commercial Information Law Institute. One of the foremost national and international experts on electronic commerce, computer law and copyright law, Professor Nimmer is the author of more than 25 books, including The Law of Computer Technology and Information Law. Professor Nimmer served as Reporter to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws for the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, an act that for the first time in blends the multiple and disparate legal disciplines of commercial law, licensing, information, intellectual property, sales laws, and financing. Professor Nimmer also serves as an expert witness and consultant in litigation concerning those areas as well as for commercial transactions and bankruptcy matters. He is included in Who‘s Who in America, Who‘s Who in American Law, The Best Lawyers in America, and in the International Who‘s Who of Business Lawyers. He has been voted the Best Lawyer in Houston in three different years in two different specialties.

Holly K. Towle is the cross-firm coordinator of the E-Merging Commerce practice group at K&L Gates, a full service law firm providing legal services locally, nationally and internationally. One of the world's most respected authorities on Internet-based transactions and banking law, Ms. Towle is included in the Guide to the World's Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers and in the International Who's Who of E-Commerce Lawyers. She is also included in the Financial Institutions Law and Information Technology Law sections of The Best Lawyers in America. She speaks and is published nationally and internationally on electronic commerce, licensing, and online services. She counsels national and international businesses, educational institutions, and financial institutions, including licensors and licensees, on developments in commercial, intellectual property, and computer information laws, privacy and identity theft, information security, electronic signatures and contracting, licensing and online contracts, information law due diligence, and consumer laws. She also identifies and analyzes for litigation counsel, "information economy" issues for use in defending or maintaining litigation.