Good legal advice for Genomics.....

I have often thought that the laws which currently govern genomics, medicine and direct to consumer products are prettty interesting.

Which is why, when we started our medical practices we were going to do an internet distribution of testing and consultation........

This was back in 2005. We sat late up at night in my partners apartment plotting to take over the industry.

We aligned some players and then we obtained some legal advice.......

After that fateful day in 2005, we realized that this was a buzzsaw we did not want to mess with......Especially in New York, Our Market!

So you can imagine my incredulity when we saw 3 companies planning to do precisely what we were advised legally not to do. The mistakes these companies made were exactly the issues we were advised to avoid. We spent a measly 5000 USD for this advice, hardly anything to touch the millions in the banks of these DTC genomics companies.

I then began to think, maybe they didn't have legal advice which was in the know with genomics......I don't think many lawyers are in the know in this space frankly.......


That was until I met Gary Marchant and Dan Vorhaus. Gary is a PhD geneticist and Juris Doctorate at Arizona State and Dan, well Dan is now a blogger and his firm has started what will likely turn out being the best legal resource for genomics out there.......

Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, launched a new resource designed to help keep track and make sense of the increasing legal and regulatory activity in the fields of genomics and personalized medicine. The Genomics Law Report focuses on the legal implications of important developments in these fields - including key litigation, legislative, regulatory and policymaking activities –

In 2007 and said that if a young lawyer wanted to make a name for themselves, they would learn genomic medicine and the legal implications........It seems that this firm has had their eye on this for a while now....

Maybe 23andSergey will actually take some advice rather than think they know it all? I know that I sure wish I had these guys in 2005.......we may have been able to create the ideal structure here.......

Imagine all of the millions of dollars in lobbying, regulation writing, lawsuits atc. these fledgling startups would have avoided by seeking Dan's counsel.......

The Sherpa Says: Genomics and the Ethical LEGAL and Social Implications...........Guys, the HGP spent money on this......there is a reason for that......and Now there is a report for that. Genomics Law Report to be precise....