Electronic commerce (also know as e-commerce) is the conduct of business by electronic means, e.g. commercial transactions via the Internet.  For a company, this includes other issues that are ancillary to the transaction itself, such as your online presence.  Legal issues in this area include:

• Trademarks, advertising and SPAM;
• Domain Name Disputes, Cybersquatting and ICANN Proceedings;
• Asset and Database Protection;
• Consumer Protection, Data Privacy and Identity Theft;
• Computer Crimes and Unauthorized Use (trespass on networks);
• Computer Security and Encryption;
• Copyrights (for content restriction and digital rights management);
• Software Licensing (with both closed source and/or open source licenses); and
• Internet Juisdiction;