Index Committee and This Month’s Chapter Events PAGE 6 FCBA Foundation News PAGE 15 Key Events Job Bank PAGE 19 Meet the Bureau and Office Chiefs November 2010 Reception NEWS Date/Time: Wednesday, Newsletter of the Federal Communications Bar Association November 3, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Location: Capital Hilton Hotel, 1001 16th Street, NW FCBA Luncheon with Commissioner SEE PAGE 21 Meredith Attwell Baker on November 17 Access to Government CLE Seminar Date/Time: Thursday, The FCBA will be holding a it in with attendee names. To November 4, 6:00 – 8:15 p.m. luncheon on Wednesday, register, go to www.fcba.org or Location: Bingham November 17, 2010 featuring use the form on page 20. McCutchen LLP, FCC Commissioner Meredith 2020 K Street, NW Attwell Baker. The luncheon will Meredith Attwell Baker was Topic: The FCC’s New Data Tools be held at the Capital Hilton nominated for a seat on the SEE PAGE 3 Hotel, 1001 16th Street, NW. Federal Communications Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. Commission by President Barack Homeland Security and the luncheon begins at Noon. Obama on June 25, 2009. She was and Emergency Please note that tables of 10 are unanimously confirmed by the Communications and available, although you cannot United States Senate on July 24, Privacy and Data register online for this option; you Meredith Attwell 2009, and sworn in as Security Committees Baker must download the form and fax Commissioner on July 31, 2009. CLE Seminar Date/Time: Tuesday, November 9, 6:00 – 8:15 p.m. Location: Verizon 24th Annual Chairman’s Communications, 1300 I Street, NW Dinner on December 9 Topic: Cybersecurity – Balancing Security with Privacy Needs The 24th Annual SEE PAGE 3 FCC Chairman’s Dinner will be held FCBA Luncheon with Thursday, December Commissioner 9, 2010 at the Meredith Attwell Washington Hilton, Baker 1919 Connecticut Date/Time: Wednesday, Senator Mark Begich Senator Mike Johanns November 17, 12:00 Noon Avenue, NW. The Location: Capital Hilton evening will begin Hotel, 1001 16th Street, NW with a reception at SEE PAGE 1 FCBA Luncheon with 6:00 p.m. The Diversity Committee Senators Mark Begich dinner will begin at FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski CLE Seminar and Mike Johanns on 7:30 p.m. in the Date/Time: Thursday, International Ballroom and will be followed November 18, 2010, December 1 by remarks from FCC Chairman Julius 6:00 – 8:15 p.m. Genachowski. Sponsor tables include a Location: Arnold & Porter The FCBA will be holding a luncheon on $350.00 tax deductible donation to the LLP,555 12th Street, NW Topic: The 21st Century Wednesday, December 1, 2010 featuring FCBA Foundation. Please use the Communications and Video Senators Mark Begich and Mike Johanns. registration form on page 22 to order Programming Accessibility Act The luncheon will be held at the Capital tables or individual tickets. SEE PAGE 4 Hilton Hotel, 1001 16th Street, NW. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. and the INVITINGGOVERNMENTGUESTS Online Registration is luncheon begins at Noon. Please note Available!! Visit the that tables of 10 are available, although Pursuant to the Office of Government FCBA website you cannot register online for this option; Ethics regulation on widely-attended CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 PRESIDENT’S Message DEARMEMBERS: FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS BAR ASSOCIATION We are headed into a tremendously busy period for the FCBA. © copyright 2010 Indeed, this month we have a full slate of events scheduled for 1020 19th Street, N.W. FCBA members, beginning with the kickoff event of the Pay Suite 325 It Forward initiative on Tuesday, November 16 at the new Washington, D.C. 20036-6101 Arena Stage from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Along with senior Phone: (202) 293-4000 representatives from One Economy, Byte Back, and the FCC, Fax: (202) 293-4317 E-mail: [email protected] we will roll out the community service component of Pay It Website: http://www.fcba.org Forward, and FCBA members will be able to sign up to volunteer on the spot. I hope you will take time out of your busy schedules to show OFFICERS your support of this worthwhile enterprise – please visit the FCBA home page to Bryan N. Tramont sign up to attend this free launch event for Pay It Forward! President Yaron Dori Next, we have the first FCBA lunch for FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker President-Elect on Wednesday, November 17 at the Capitol Hilton. Sign up now for our first FCC Laura H. Phillips Commissioner luncheon! On Wednesday, December 1 from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m, we Secretary switch gears a bit and host Senators Mike Johanns (R-NE) and Mark Begich (D-AK) Ryan G. Wallach who will have a bipartisan luncheon conversation at the Capitol Hilton about the Assistant Secretary state of play of communications issues in the U.S. Senate, from their perspectives as Lauren M. Van Wazer members of the Commerce Committee. Treasurer Joseph M. Di Scipio On Thursday, December 9, the FCBA will host Chairman Julius Genachowski for Assistant Treasurer his second and the 24th Annual FCC Chairman’s Dinner, which will take place at EXECUTIVECOMMITTEE the Washington Hilton. Finally, I am proud to announce the first of the Monica S. Desai “Distinguished Scholar Speaker Series” in which FCBA members will hear from Parul Desai Ari Q. Fitzgerald distinguished jurists and academics on a variety of timely legal issues. Dean Erwin Rosemary C. Harold Chemerinsky of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, will speak at a Janice I. Obuchowski luncheon at Hogan Lovells on Thursday, December 16. Designed to step back from Robert L. Pettit the daily communications law debates, the Distinguished Scholar Speaker Series will Glenn T. Reynolds address legal issues from a wider and more academic perspective. Megan Anne Stull Amy R. Wolverton Christopher J. Wright As promised, I am again shining the Pay It Forward spotlight on a younger attorney who has demonstrated the Pay It Forward ideals of service, dedication, and CHAPTER REPRESENTATIVES Daniel Alvarez Bradford W.Bayliff generosity of spirit. , an associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, is very David L. Rice active in the FCBA as a co-chair of the Diversity Committee and with the Charity Auction Committee. He also serves as co-captain of Willkie Farr’s AIDS Walk DELEGATETOTHE AMERICANBAR Washington team, helping raise approximately $20,000 to help the Whitman- ASSOCIATION Walker Clinic provide medical and other services to those in the D.C. community Brooks E. Harlow who are living with HIV/AIDS, and to volunteer as a coach, commissioner, and member of the Board of Directors for the Arlington Little League. For all of these YOUNGLAWYERS REPRESENTATIVE efforts and his continued commitment to the FCBA, Daniel has been selected to Catherine Hilke bask in this month’s Pay It Forward spotlight! FCBASTAFF With Thanksgiving and the holiday season approaching, I think of how lucky we all Stanley D. Zenor ([email protected]) Executive Director are to be practicing in such a wonderful bar with so many kind, talented, and selfless individuals. With Pay It Forward and our relationship with McKenna’s Kerry K. Loughney ([email protected]) Director of Member Services Wagon and Martha’s Table, masterfully coordinated by Joanna Georgatsos and Howard Weiss Wendy Jo Parish ([email protected]) , respectfully, we have many opportunities to give back to our Administrative Assistant community, and I encourage you to give as much time, energy, and resources as you Beth Phillips ([email protected]) can to these charitable causes during the holiday season. May you and your families Bookkeeper have a peaceful Thanksgiving, and I hope to see you all soon. Editor – Kerry Loughney Bryan Tramont Photographer – Mark Van Bergh www.markvanbergh.com FCBANEWS 2 NOVEMBER 2010 CLE Seminars Thursday, November new system will replace the Universal FCC’s Consumer & Governmental Licensing System (used by the Wireless Affairs Bureau 4, 6:00 – 8:15 p.m. Telecommunications Bureau and the The FCC’s New Data Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau), the International Bureau’s Tuesday, November Tools filing system, the Experimental Licensing System (used by the Office of 9, 6:00 – 8:15 p.m. Presented by the Access to Government Engineering and Technology), the Committee Cybersecurity – Consolidated Database System (used by the Mass Media Bureau) as well as Balancing Security The FCBA Access to Government various other systems currently in use. Committee will hold a CLE on with Privacy Needs The Office of the Managing Director, Thursday, November 4, 2010 , from which is leading the Commission’s Presented by the Emergency 6:00 – 8:15 p.m. on the FCC’s New efforts, will demonstrate a prototype of Communications and Homeland Security Data Tools. This event will focus on the CLS user interface. and Privacy and Data Security several of the newest systems for Committees gathering and analyzing information Speaker: from the FCC’s public databases. Pat Rinn , Deputy CIO, FCC’s Office of The FCBA Emergency Communications Panelists will demonstrate and discuss Managing Director and Homeland Security and Privacy and the FCC’s forthcoming Consolidated Data Security Committees will hold a Licensing System (“CLS”) and License 7:05 – 7:15 p.m. CLE on Tuesday, November 9 , 2010 , View System, as well as recent BREAK from 6:00 – 8:15 p.m. on Cybersecurity enhancements to the Spectrum – Balancing Security with Privacy Dashboard. Advanced capabilities of 7:15 – 8:15 p.m. Needs. This CLE will be held at the Commission’s Electronic Comment TOPIC II: SPECTRUM Verizon Communications, 1300 I Street, Filing System v.2 and RSS feeds will also DASHBOARD, LICENSE VIEW NW.