He has novel ideas for E-commerce
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Alan Caplan, Amazon.com's vice pres and general counsel, is one of the key Internet retailing figures and the largest online seller of books, music and videos. At $250 mil, Amazon.com's sales in the 4th qtr of 1998 more than tripled 1997's performance. Caplan was the company's only lawyer before it went public in 1998, but he now supervises seven lawyers and two paralegals. Caplan sees privacy and data protection as the key issues for Amazon.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1999
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Lawyer takes a '24/7' approach
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Robert Linderman is the senior vice pres and general counsel of NextCard Inc, a 3-year-old company issuing credit cards over the Internet with a customer base of more than 100,000. Customers use the NextCard web page to type in their name, address, income and Social Security number, then receive a real-time response on their creditworthiness in just a few seconds.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1999
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Where browsing is not just a pastime
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Roberta Katz, the senior vice pres, general counsel and secretary of Netscape Communications Corp, maker of the Netscape Navigator and other software products.Netscape's phenomenal growth has been much in the news but has leveled off due to increased competition from Microsoft and elsewhere.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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