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    This section is designed for prospective Science & Technology and Entertainment organizations, who are in need of communications (and consulting) services on matters of litigation support for intellectual property and products liability law.

    We have considerable experience in technology, intellectual property, and products liability law, where our latter specialty is in matters of "failure to warn."

    We provide Communications and some Consulting (human factors engineering) services in these legal matters. We have solid expertise and an understanding of the impact of federal regulatory affairs upon business, particularly science & technology. Public and private oversight of business is designed to assure quality and product safety, but often it can go too far and add unnecessary costs and delays in doing business. We can help in removing these impediments. These issues are very critical in prescription drugs and medical devices, which entails complex science, public policy, and case law issues requiring cross-field knowledge. Since much of today's regulatory policy and legal matters are determined in part by "public opinion," intuitive public information and media campaigns are of the utmost importance.

    Television and radio broadcasters are also facing oversight problems. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began raising indecency fines by almost a hundred-fold after a 2004 incident at that year's Super Bowl, in an effort to make up for outdated and ambiguous FCC policy. Extraordinarily high fines and rules have now began to hurt TV and radio broadcast industry profits, and comes at a time when the entertainment industry has been battered by copyright infringement issues. The U.S. Supreme Court "Groekster" decision on Internet and digital storage file sharing appears to have ended the controversy over copyright protected music, though consumers complained for many years that record labels were unfairly packaging and pricing music. In the future, businesses should respond more rapidly with remedies, rather than allow losses and the Courts to decide.

    Companies should adopt new quality systems practices to minimize errors, and subsequent regulatory affairs and litigation issues. They can also strategically utilize public information and advertising campaigns to convey their message to the general public, to Congress, the media, and outside of the courtroom.

    Many federal agencies are difficult to modernize, either by acts of Congress, or by the agencies themselves. Federal agencies have strict provisions which limit what changes they are permitted to enact on their own initiative. Petitioning these agencies is an alternate procedure, whereby private citizens, industry, public interest, and government organizations can request specific action.

    Civil litigation is adjunct to where regulatory policy fails to assure quality, safety, and fairness. Japanese manufacturing companies have instituted sophisticated quality assurance "checks and balances" to assure near zero QA failures, and such practices have been shown to reduce civil litigation in the U.S.

    Below, we identify our Capabilities and Services.

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