The
Internet Law Group is a boutique law firm based in Northern
Virginia that focuses on complex Internet litigation,
and specializes in the forensic tracking of spammers
and phishers. Jon Praed, ILG's founding partner, has
been at the forefront of the Internet community's legal
battle against spam. Over the past eight years, ILG has
obtained over $20 million in judgments against spammers
on behalf of some of the largest ISPs in the United States,
and even more importantly has collected millions from
spammers on behalf of its clients, and has helped shape the law against spam, including:
- an early precedent-setting victory on summary judgment in AOL v. LCGM, 46 F. Supp. 2d 444 (E.D. Va. 1998);
- an important personal jurisdiction decision in Verizon Online v. Alan Ralsky, 203 F. Supp. 2d 601 (E.D. Va. 2002), that established spammers can be sued wherever their spam causes injury; and
- a ground-breaking contempt of court decision in AOL v. CN Productions (E.D. Va. 2002) (available here)
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