Increasing attorneys are assisting clients to prepare notices and terms of use agreements suitable to prepare an e-commerce Internet site and related transactions. Advising e-commerce clients is very different from traditional store front clients. Unwary practitioners face malpractice and code of professional responsibility difficulties shrouded by the multi-jurisdictional and multi-faceted characteristics of the Internet.

More precisely, e-commerce transactions, typically subject to at least two jurisdictions and possibly characterized as one of three types of transactions, namely as publication, telecommunication, or broadcast. Each jurisdiction and each transaction type possibly resulting in diametrically opposite outcomes.