Fruitport Communications & Internet Lawyers

Partner Chris Newberg focuses his practice on civil litigation and strategic planning for entertainers and emerging businesses. Attorney Newberg represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of disputes involving contracts, insurance claims, personal injury, real estate, and employment. He is licensed to practice in federal court and works on a considerable amount of cases involving federal law. More specifically, Attorney Newberg devotes much of his practice to helping underpaid and misclassified employees collect back wages from employers under the Fair Labor Standards Act. His approach accounts for changing trends in business ownership, technological development, and protection into the future....

Steve is a business-focused attorney with a private practice in Kalamazoo. Steve has broad knowledge of branding, advertising and marketing topics, including agency work, content syndication, licensing, and sponsored content in print, broadcast, social and OTT media. Steve also helps clients with transactions in commercial real estate.

Previously, Steve served as Regional Counsel, Europe at Stryker Corporation, where he developed guidelines allowing the company to activate new branding strategies in markets outside the US. Before going in-house for Stryker, Steve was an attorney in the advertising and real estate practice groups at Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn. ...

Mr. Schaefer is a seasoned trial attorney practicing internet, copyright, domain name, social media, copyright, trademark, consumer class action and mass tort law on a global basis. Mr. Schaefer has significant experience in internet and technology company representation, having been named President and General Counsel of an internet start-up company in Boulder, Colorado. Mr. Schaefer has been retained on domain valuation issues in divorces, business asset valuation and other matters, having developed domain name valuation methodologies for use by courts, judges and juries. Mr. Schaefer understands the issues facing technology companies and brick-and-mortar companies with...

Mr. Serra concentrates his practice on tirelessly representing the needs of Michigan businesses and business owners. Reese Serra has counseled businesses ranging from a wide variety of industries with an expertise in representing technology clients of all sizes.
As a civil litigator, Mr. Serra has procured victories for his clients at all levels of State and Federal courts, including numerous successful appeals.

Mr. Serra focuses his practice in the areas of real estate matters, business and financial transactions, including: mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations of business entities; complex commercial and real estate lending and restructuring transactions; international business transactions; real estate sale...

Experienced data privacy and cybersecurity attorney handling:

Cybersecurity incident response and data breaches
Breach notification and remediation
Regualtory enforcement actions and litigation
Compliance with GDPR and CCPA
Compliance with HIPAA and GLBA
Compliance with financial/insurance industry data security laws
Implementation of security standards, i.e. NIST, ISO, SOC2, PCI-DSS

John Di Giacomo is an experienced business, intellectual property, litigation, and Internet lawyer practicing in the areas of copyright, trademark, domain name disputes, e-money, e-payment systems, contracts, defamation, Internet law, Communications Decency Act §230 immunity issues, international commercial law, cybersquatting and domain name disputes, video game law, adult industry law, Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), E-Sign Act, shrinkwrap, browsewrap, and clickwrap issues, computer tort claims (e.g. trespass to chattels for unauthorized entry & spamming), and other intellectual property or business law related areas. John has litigated intellectual property, business, and commercial disputes in state and federal courts across...