LA lawyers in this week's NLJ

The NLJ profile's Antone Johnson, the vice president for legal affairs for eHarmony.com, a Pasadena based online dating service. Find out about everything from his daily duties to his response to a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging the site refuses services to gay, lesbian and bisexual people.

READ: "Matchmaker," The National Law Journal

Sex in virtual reality and IP law

Sheppard Mullin entertainment and media partner Benjamin Mulcahy writes about the adult entertainment industry's latest contribution to intellectual property law on the Internet - a lawsuit against players in a virtual world who copied and resold a company's computer code that aids characters having virtual sex. Policing a virtual world named Second Life means determining whether virtual goods constitute "goods" as articulated in the Lanham Act.

READ: "Second Life raises novel IP issues," The National Law Journal