Penelope A. Preovolos, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP to Speak at KC’s Legal Series: Future Trends in False Advertising Live Webcast

New York, NY, November 01, 2014 --(PR.com)-- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Penelope A. Preovolos, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP will speak at the Knowledge Congress’ webcast entitled: “Legal Series: Future Trends in False Advertising Live Webcast.” This event is scheduled for Friday, November 21, 2014 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm (ET).

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About Penelope A. Preovolos,

Penelope Preovolos has served as lead counsel in a number of major consumer class action and antitrust cases spanning more than a quarter century. She has extensive experience in defending and counseling clients in antitrust, consumer class actions, product liability, privacy and data security matters. Her clients span a range of industries, with an emphasis on consumer electronics and technology companies. Ms. Preovolos continues to be recommended by Legal 500 US in the areas of “product liability and mass tort defense: consumer products” and "marketing and advertising" and has been named San Francisco Litigation – Antitrust “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America 2014. She is also recommended as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Practical Law Company’s Which lawyer? and Super Lawyers. According to Chambers USA 2014, Ms. Preovolos is “a superb all-around antitrust lawyer.”

About Morrison & Foerster LLP
Morrison & Foerster was founded in San Francisco in 1883. Today, with more than 1,000 lawyers in 17 offices across the U.S., Asia, and Europe, Morrison & Foerster offers clients a comprehensive platform of global legal services. The Firm’s reputation in class action defense has put us on a short list of firms that general counsel nationwide routinely identify as leaders in the field. We defend clients against class actions that span a multitude of different subject areas, including securities, RICO, false advertising, unfair business practices, products liability, financial services, labor and employment, antitrust, and environmental law. We defend nationwide class actions, including as national coordinating counsel, in state and federal courts, and in multi-district litigation where we have served as national coordinating counsel.

Event Synopsis:
False advertising law, both under the Lanham Act and in state law consumer class actions, has been a hotbed of activity in the past year. The Lanham Act prohibits false advertising, trademark infringement, and trademark dilution. State consumer protection laws can prohibit false advertising, including omissions and any statement likely to mislead consumers. This valuable course will help you stay abreast of false advertising law and learn how to defend against class actions, claims for monetary damages, and injunctive relief.

Some of the major topics that will be covered in this course include:

False advertising law
Recent Supreme Court Lanham Act developments
Developments in false advertising class actions
Strategies for defeating class certification
Use of Surveys
Future Trends

About The Knowledge Group, LLC/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series

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