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Fcba News JAN 05 JANUARY 2005 Newsletter of the Federal Communications Bar Association 6th Annual Communications Law 101 on February 8 On the afternoon of February 8, 2005, the FCBA will present its annual COMM LAW 101 Comm Law 101 CLE Seminar, from AGENDA 2:00-6:00 p.m., at the Wiley Rein & Fielding Conference Center, 1776 K The Practical Basics Street, N.W. This afternoon-long event is targeted at attorneys who are for a Career in relatively new to practice and will Communications Law feature recognized experts in the field. The goal of the Comm Law 101 FEBRUARY 8, 2005 seminar is to help attendees advance 2:00 – 6:00 PM their careers in communications law by WILEY REIN & FIELDING, providing practical advice in the 1776 K STREET, NW following areas of communications law WASHINGTON, D.C. practice: litigation and enforcement, advocacy and policy, and 2:00-2:10 pm transactional. The Registration Form WELCOMING REMARKS is on page 15 of this newsletter. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 Congressman Charles “Chip” Pickering Transactional Practice Committee to host January 26 CLE Seminar Congressman Pickering to Speak A CLE program will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 26, 2005, on An Overview of Contract Drafting.The program will be held at the offices at January 26 FCBA of Dow Lohnes and Albertson, 1200 New Hampshire Avenue, NW,Washington,D.C. Breakfast The program is worth two CLE credits. Congressman Charles “Chip” The two-hour program will feature a basic overview of contract drafting, including Pickering, Vice Chairman of the House general structure and drafting tips, followed by an in-depth discussion of Energy & Commerce Committee, will be provisions of interest, including arbitration, non-compete, choice of law, and our featured guest speaker at the termination provisions. Speakers to be announced. More details will be sent to Wednesday, January 26 breakfast at the membership via e-mail. Registration is on page 13 of this newsletter. the J.W.Marriott hotel, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Registration information is on page 13 of this newsletter. Please note these other luncheon/breakfast IN THIS 3 Special Events series events: February 16 - Luncheon 8 Committee and Chapter Events with Mel Karmazin, CEO of Sirius Satellite Radio, and March 16 - Issue: 11 Foundation News Luncheon with FCC Commissioner 12 Job Bank Copps. www.fcba.org CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE DEAR MEMBERS: FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS BAR ASSOCIATION © copyright 2005 The holiday season is an appropriate time to highlight the contributions the FCBA Foundation makes to the Washington 1020 19th Street,N.W. community,and at the same time explain how the Foundation’s Suite 325 Washington,D.C.20036-6101 activities benefit the Association and its members. Phone: (202) 293-4000 Fax: (202) 293-4317 Last spring the Foundation awarded $104,000 in college E-mail: [email protected] scholarships to nine students at four DC public high schools. Website: http://www.fcba.org This is up from $82,000 awarded to seven local students in OFFICERS 2003. As is evident from the video produced each year Harry C.Martin featuring the scholarship winners, this program has been the factor that has made it President possible for many of the recipients to attend college. Michele C.Farquhar President-Elect Much of the scholarship money was raised through the purchase of sponsored tables Jennifer A.Warren at the Chairman’s Dinner. This year the total proceeds to the Foundation from that Secretary event were $39,500. The Foundation’s annual golf tournament, the Charity Auction, Diane J.Cornell plus corporate and individual giving have increased the Foundation’s total budget to Assistant Secretary $230,000. James S.Blitz Treasurer The Foundation provides stipends for law students who take summer internships at Mark D.Schneider the FCC or other government entities. This past summer five law students received a Assistant Treasurer total of $15,700 through this program. A total of $10,600 was awarded to four interns for the summer of 2003. This program fosters interest in the communications law EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE field, and helps broaden the reach of local internship opportunities to students from Carolyn W.Brandon law schools outside the DC area. Sally A.Buckman Selina Y.Khan Cheryl A.Leanza The Foundation also sponsors monthly participation by our members at both Martha’s Laura H.Phillips Table and McKenna’s Wagon, volunteer organizations that serve Washington’s Bryan N.Tramont homeless population. And, the Foundation has sponsored a holiday gift drive under Ryan G.Wallach which over the past nine years FCBA members and friends have donated thousands of Sheryl J.Wilkerson Alexandra M.Wilson dollars worth of gifts to 1,200 people in the Washington area. Harry Wingo Christopher G.Wood This year’s Charity Auction, a joint venture with the Young Lawyers Committee, raised $70,000, all of which is going to the Charitable Coalition for Children with Cancer, a CHAPTER Washington,D.C.charity. And of course,much of the giving done for the Charity Auction REPRESENTATIVES is done by individual FCBA members and their employers, who each year come up with Ellen S.Agress a wide range of valuable prizes that produce higher and higher bidding totals. Judith A.Endejan DELEGATE TO AMERICAN These charitable programs help define the FCBA and add significantly to our culture. BAR ASSOCIATION Sponsoring college scholarships for needy students manifests the care our members R.Clark Wadlow have for the Washington community. And, the McKenna’s Wagon, Martha’s Table and holiday gift drive programs afford community service opportunities that go beyond EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR giving money. Our members’ support of all of these Foundation programs makes us Stanley D.Zenor much more than just another trade organization. You might say the Foundation provides a different dimension, if not a changed identity for the FCBA, for our DEPUTY DIRECTOR charitable side promotes a positive feeling about the association among our members. Heidi M.Kurtz This, in turn, makes the association cohesive and attractive to volunteers. In this way, Editor - Heidi M.Kurtz the Foundation not only provides meaningful service to the community, it also fosters Photographer - Mark Van Bergh the very volunteerism on which the FCBA depends to mount an ever-increasing number of events, whether they be charitable, educational or social. We thank Greg Vogt, this year’s Foundation board chair, his fellow trustees and the Foundation’s Password as of January 10,2005:847 volunteers,for helping to move all of us forward. Harry C. Martin FCBA NEWS 2 JANUARY 2005 SPECIAL EVENTS will continue the Silicon Flatirons’ Discussants:Preston Padden, Robert The Digital tradition of encouraging “bolder Pepper, Hon. Stephen Williams Broadband thinking” in Boulder. Like its predecessors, the proceedings from this 5:30 - 6:30 PM Migration: Rewriting conference will be published in the RECEPTION The Telecom Act Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law. CO-SPONSORED BY: Monday, The Association of Denver February 14th, 2005 Telecommunications Professionals Schedule of Events: The Federal Communications Bar 8:45 - 9:00 AM Association Sunday, INTRODUCTION OF KEYNOTE Colorado Bar Association SPEAKER Telecommunications Section February 13th, 2005 Elizabeth Hoffman, President, University of Colorado Interdisciplinary University of Colorado Telecommunications Program 9:00 - 9:30 AM REGISTRATION 9:00 - 10:00 AM Date: Sunday, February 13th - Monday, KEYNOTE ADDRESS February 14th,2005 9:30 - 9:45 AM Richard Notebaert, CEO,Qwest Time: Sunday, 9:00 - 6:30 p.m. and WELCOME Communications,Inc. Monday,8:45 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. Phil Weiser, Founder and Executive Location: University of Colorado School Director,Silicon Flatirons Telecom 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM of Law,Lindsley Memorial Courtroom, Program REFORMING THE FCC AND 401 Kittredge Loop (Directions and ITS MISSION Registration Information below.) 9:45 - 10:45 PM Moderator:Nort Cutler OVERVIEW ADDRESSES Presenters:Alfred Kahn, Bryan The transformation of Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Tramont, Molly Van Houweling telecommunications from an analog, Stanford University Discussants:Mark Cooper, Ray narrowband network optimized for voice Vint Cerf, Chairman of ICANN and SVP, Gifford, Jon Nuechterlein to a digital, broadband network Technology Strategy,MCI optimized for data traffic has created a 12:00 - 12:15 PM myriad of challenges for businesses, 10:45 - 11:45 PM BREAK policymakers, and academics alike. In OVERVIEW PANEL: enacting the Telecommunications Act of Vint Cerf, Dale Hatfield, Lawrence 12:15 - 2:00 PM 1996, Congress instituted a regulatory Lessig, Phil Weiser LUNCH BANQUET: model based on the traditional THE DIGITAL BROADBAND technology used to deliver voice 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM MIGRATION: THE VIEW telephony-and largely did not grapple LUNCH BREAK FROM COLORADO with the implications of the Internet.This LeRoy Williams, Colorado Secretary of failure, along with the challenges of 1:15 - 3:15 PM Innovation and Technology reforming the legacy model of spectrum THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE DIGITAL BROADBAND policy and “re-missioning” the Federal BROADBAND AND VOIP MIGRATION: TOWARD A Communications Commission, have led Moderator:Peter Rohrbach NEW TELECOM ACT many to suggest that it is time to re-write Presenters:Scott Marcus, David Reed, Hon. Michael Powell, FCC Chairman the Telecom Act. Kevin Werbach Discussants:Bill Hunt, Douglas Sicker, REGISTRATION This conference will examine the issues Tim Wu INFORMATION left largely unaddressed by the Telecom Online registration NOT yet available for Act: how to grapple with the advent of 3:15 - 3:30 PM this conference. broadband and Voice over Internet BREAK Full Registration includes: Protocol (VoIP); how to reform spectrum • Symposium Admission policy; and how (and whether) the FCC 3:30 - 5:30 PM • Attendance at the Final Lunch & can re-adjust its institutional mission.
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