Denise McKinney Howell is a lawyer

Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

, blogger

Blog

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, and netcast host living in Newport Beach, California

California

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. Her blog, Bag and Baggage, started in 2001, was one of the first law-related blogs. She also authors Lawgarithms, a ZDNet

ZDNet

ZDNet is a business technology news website published by CBS Interactive, along with TechRepublic and SmartPlanet. The brand was founded on April 1, 1991 as a general interest technology portal from Ziff Davis and evolved into an enterprise IT-focused online publication owned by CNET...

 blog.

Her netcast, This WEEK in LAW

This Week in Law

This Week in Law is a podcast created as part of the This Week In Tech family of podcasts. The show is hosted by Denise Howell, with frequent co-host Evan Brown. Past guests include Cory Doctorow, Merlin Mann, Nina Paley, Ernie Svenson, John Palfrey and Colette Vogele. The show focuses mainly on...

, which is part of Leo Laporte

Leo Laporte

Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry....

's This Week In Tech

This Week in Tech

This Week in Tech–casually referred to as TWiT, and formerly known as Revenge of the Screen Savers–is the weekly flagship podcast of the TWiT.tv network...

 family

TWiT.tv (network)

The TWiT Netcast Network, which is the operating trade name of TWiT LLC, is a podcast network run by technology broadcaster and author Leo Laporte. The network began operation in April 2005 with the launch of This Week in Tech. Security Now was the second podcast on the network, debuting in...

 of netcasts, focuses mostly on intellectual property

Intellectual property

Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

 and other technology-related legal matters.

Howell is a graduate of UCLA (B.A. 1987), where she majored in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, and the UC Berkeley School of Law

UC Berkeley School of Law

The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, commonly referred to as Berkeley Law and Boalt Hall, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley Law is consistently regarded as an elite and prestigious law school...

 (J.D.

Juris Doctor

Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...

1990).

External links

• Bag and Baggage
• This WEEK in LAW