PLEASE NOTE: To be considered for this position, please call the application phone line listed at the end of this job description. Are you interested in litigating disputes that arise fully in the digital world? Are you up for pioneering a frontier where the caselaw is not yet developed or non-existent? Do the areas of cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, online speech, video game law, privacy and biometrics, internet advertising, and social media influencer
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