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Elchoness Quoted in Forrester Research Report
01/07/08
Dave Elchoness was interviewed by, and among the few directly quoted in, the groundbreaking Forrester Research report "Getting Real Work Done in Virtual Worlds." The report recommends that companies experiment with and explore virtual worlds because they may be as important for real work as the web is, in five years.
Dave Elchoness was featured in the HR Magazine article "HR Challenges in Virtual Worlds." (November 2007) The article recognized Elchoness as "among the most knowledgeable virtual legal experts."
Elchoness Law Firm, LLC has established a virtual office on Second Life's Silicon Island. For those of you unfamiliar with Second Life, it represents the starting point for what may become the 3-D internet: the internet as a set of destinations rather than pages. Elchoness Law Firm, LLC is the first virtual in-house labor and employment law firm to set up operations in Second Life. Other real life companies that have established operations in Second Life, for purposes of facilitating employee meetings, sales, or recruiting include IBM, Accenture, Coldwell Banker, and HR Block. To visit Elchoness Law Firm's Second Life office, you must first establish a presence in Second Life by downloading Second Life software and creating a personal avatar at www.secondlife.com.
