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MIRLN is “Miscellaneous IT-Related Legal News”, a free e-newsletter begun in 1997 by Vincent Polley, one of the Internet Bar Organization’s board members.  MIRLN is delivered every three weeks to members of the American Bar Association’s Cyberspace Law Committee, and other subscribers. There are about 3500 individual subscribers (including two former Attorneys General of the U.S.), and several group subscriptions.

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About MIRLN’s editor:

Vince Polley

Vincent I. Polley is President of KnowConnect PLLC (www.knowconnect.com), providing consulting services on information policy and knowledge management processes. Earlier, Deputy General Counsel of Schlumberger Limited.

Polley is Chair of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Technology & Information Systems. He was co-chair of the ABA Commission on Second Season of Service, and served on the Advisory Commission for the ABA World Justice Project, the Council of the ABA’s Section of Business Law, and the Standing Committee on Law & National Security.  He is the past chair of the ABA’s Cyberspace Law Committee, and the co-author of the book “Employee Use of the Internet and E-Mail” (ABA Press, 2002). Since 1997 Polley has published MIRLN, a monthly e-newsletter on IT related legal news; his Twitter handle is “vpolley”.

Mr. Polley was a founding member of the Internet Law & Policy Forum, and is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an arbitrator on the AAA’s Commercial Panel, and a member of the American Law Institute.  A graduate of Harvard College (mathematics), Mr. Polley received his law degree from the University of Michigan.

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