A presentation that ANYONE who is on the web using Twitter, LinkedIn, a Blog, or Facebook for personal AND businesses purposes must see, and for anyone who creates 'intellectual property.'

Tuesday September 22. Arrive between 5 and 6 pm for networking before the presentation.

Personal Branding Wars: Does your company already claim a stake in your personal Twitter, Facebook, or Blog?

So you've got a Facebook page and have friended both work associates as well as your personal friends, and you occasionally post work-related things there. If you leave the company, are they going to try to take your Facebook account away?

You built up your LinkedIn business connections and are proud to have over 5,000 contacts, at least half of them gotten after your company paid for a professional subscriptioin. When you decide to quit your job and join another similar firm and figure all those contacts will help you in your new role, would you be surprised if your former employer tried to gain control of your account?

You tweet on Twitter about personal things to your friends, and one day you gripe about having to work outrageous hours for your employer on a new business pitch to The NoName Company, and that your client there is a total bitch. Think you're speech is protected and you won't get fired, or sued?

Ask Daliah Saper, attorney and principal at Saper Law Offices about such scenarios and be enlightened! Dahlia will also touch on the legal issues around Intellectual Property: Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secret protection, Technology and Software protection.

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DALIAH SAPER received her J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law, where she was a staff member on the Journal of Law Technology and Policy and served as President of the Intellectual Property Law Society. Her work experience includes positions at Brinks Hofer Gilson and Lione, a large intellectual property law firm; Lawyers for the Creative Arts, a non-profit organization assisting artists; and the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights organization. She has also worked at Playboy Enterprises, Inc., assisting with the maintenance and enforcement of Playboy’s global trademark portfolio.

Daliah is a member of the Illinois Bar and both the General Bar and Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She has handled high profile cases and has been featured in several publications including: National Jurist Magazine, Chicago Lawyer Magazine, Chicago Reader, P2Pnet.net, StyleExpose.com, and SBTV.com. Most recently, she received the honor of being named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers magazine. In addition to conducting Seminars at Saper Law on a monthly basis, Daliah is a frequent lecturer, panelist, and instructor for organizations around the city and the country. (For Daliah’s latest speaking engagements, please click on News.)

Prior to starting her own firm, Daliah gained experience as a commercial litigator and negotiated settlement agreements on behalf of individuals sued by the Recording Industry Association of America. She also served as Vice President and in-house counsel of diLuce Productions, Inc., a Chicago based public relations and marketing consulting firm specializing in event production.

Daliah is an active member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Chicago Fashion Foundation, the Technology Executives Club, the Decalogue Society, the Standard Club, and IFP (Independent Feature Project). She also volunteers for Lawyers for the Creative Arts, Kartemquin Films, Chicago Filmmakers, Women in Film, and Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Foundation.

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