International Summit
on the Law and Business
of Video Games

Speakers > Mark Methenitis, Attorney, The Vernon Law Group, PLLC

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Mark is an attorney with The Vernon Law Group, PLLC, in Dallas, TX, as well as a columnist for Joystiq. He is the author of the Law of the Game (http://www.lawofthegame.com) blog, which was honored as one of the ABA Journal’s Top 100 Legal Blawgs in 2007. His 2005 paper on MMORPG gambling was one of the first on the topic and has been widely cited, and his 2007 update to that paper was published in the Gaming Law Review in August 2007. Mark is also on the board of the Dallas chapter of the IGDA. Mark practices primarily in the area of international transactional and compliance law. To assist electronic entertainment clients, both gambling and video gaming, Mark focuses on emerging and continuing legal issues created in the electronic gaming world. He has handled many complex transactional and structuring issues, but also has found solutions to very complex compliance problems, especially related to regulations in the international trade, gambling, and FTC arenas.