Profiles

Paul Jacobson is web.tech.law’s founder and director. He started out his career as a commercial litigation attorney with Werksmans Incorporated and left to start his own practice, Jacobson Attorneys, in August 2005. Determined to create a better business to handle the wonderful legal and compliance challenges presented by the social Web and digital media on this remarkable platform, he founded web.tech.law in 2012. 

He has worked as General Counsel for the non-profit organisation iCommons and served as a member of a sub-committee of the SA Standards sub-committee dealing with Information Technology: Document Description and Processing Languages which recently considered and rejected the proposed Office Open XML standard in South Africa. He is presently also a part-time WASPA adjudicator and considers complaints filed against mobile operators registered as WASPA members.

Paul focuses on the intersect between the social Web and the law. He is particularly interested in open content licenses, protection of personal information and data protection, reputation management and freedom of expression on the Web. He has maintained blogs since December 2004 and has obsessive tendencies when it comes to social media. If there is a popular social Web service he is probably using it. He even uses some of the unpopular ones.

Paul has been frequently quoted in the media on a range of topics. Links to a number of articles is on this page. 

Consultant

Efi Bar-on completed 2 years of practical legal training at Werksmans Attorneys, Inc. Later legal experience included near on a year at D. Mirkin, Efrima, Barak, Milstein, Bonet & Co, Advocates, in Tel-Aviv, Israel and a further number of years at Jowell, Glyn & Marais, Inc in Sandton, South Africa. Efi also worked as a contract manager (legal) at the Standard Bank of South Africa Limited where he was responsible for reviewing agreements concluded by the latter with their suppliers.

Efi produces a range of commercial legal agreements and documents that form the foundation of many of our clients' business activites both on the Web and generally speaking including service level agreements, sponsorship agreements, leases and many more.