Index þ Committees This Month’s in the Spotlight PAGE 3 þ Committee and Key Events Chapter Events PAGE 6 þ Job Bank PAGE 9 New England Chapter Panel Discussion NEWS October 2005 Date/Time: Wednesday, October 19 Newsletter of the Federal Communications Bar Association Topic: WiFI, WiMAX and Ultrawideband Location: Boston, MA Senator Ensign to FCBA Fall Reception to þ SEE PAGE 7 Speak at October 18 be held October 20 Midwest Chapter Breakfast Luncheon The FCBA is pleased to announce its annual Date/Time: Monday, Fall reception with the FCC Bureau Chiefs October 24 Senator John Ensign on Thursday, October 20, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Speaker: Commissioner (R-NV) will be the The reception will be held at the J.W. Copps FCBA’s guest speaker Location: Chicago, IL Marriott Hotel, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, at a Tuesday, þ SEE PAGE 6 NW, Washington, D.C. October 18 breakfast at the J.W. Marriott Legislation and Sponsorships of the event are available for $500 Hotel, 1331 Wireless Luncheon and $250, and include registrations to the Date/Time: Friday, October Pennsylvania Avenue, reception. Sponsors will receive recognition in 28 NW, Washington, the newsletter and acknowledgement at the Topic: DTV Transition D.C. The doors will Location: Washington, DC Senator John Ensign event. Individual tickets to the reception may open for registration þ SEE PAGE 6 also be purchased. Please use the registration and networking at 8:00 a.m. and a breakfast form on page 17. buffet will open at 8:15 a.m. To register, Committee please see the form on page 14. THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS and Chapter CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 þ FALL RECEPTION SPONSORS (as of 9-23-05) Memberships 19th Annual Gold Sponsors The FCBA office began Bennet & Bennet, PLLC transitioning to a new Chairman’s Dinner membership records Hogan & Hartson LLP on December 8 system during the Lockheed Martin Corporation summer. At the time the The 19th Annual FCBA Chairman’s Dinner Morrison & Foerster, LLP first round of renewal where invited guest of honor, FCC Chairman Qwest Communications International, Inc. notices were sent out, Kevin J. Martin, will committee and chapter SBC Services Inc. give remarks, will be memberships were held on Thursday, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP carried over from the old December 8, at the Verizon Communications membership system and Washington Hilton & Wiley Rein & Fielding, LLP transferred to the new Towers. Don’t miss system, maintaining your this premiere, annual membership continuity FCBA event. Silver Sponsors on the same committees Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and chapters this year as Individual tickets are last year. If you wish to Kevin J. Martin Ericsson Inc. priced at $180.00 for change your membership Inmarsat, Inc. members, $275.00 for non-members, and on a committee or $100.00 for government/academic attorneys. Intelsat chapter, please send an Tables of 10 may be requested for $1,800.00 Microsoft Corporation email to Wendy at In addition, the FCBA is offering an Irwin, Campbell & Tannenwald, P.C. [email protected] and opportunity for our members to contribute to indicate any changes you Mobile Satellite Ventures the FCBA Foundation as Sponsors of the would like made. Chairman’s Dinner by purchasing tables of ten Wireless Communications Association at $2,150.00 per table, $350.00 of which will Internaltional CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 þ PRESIDENT’S Message DEAR MEMBERS: FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS BAR ASSOCIATION This month, the FCBA kicks off the fall season with several © copyright 2005 major events — an October 18 Breakfast featuring Senator Ensign, the annual Fall Reception on October 20, and a 1020 19th Street, N.W. Suite 325 number of brown bag lunches hosted by our Committees. Washington, D.C. 20036-6101 Phone: (202) 293-4000 In addition, I’d like to highlight two new initiatives — a Fax: (202) 293-4317 mentoring program and an outreach effort to government and E-mail: [email protected] public sector attorneys — that the FCBA is launching this Website: http://www.fcba.org month: OFFICERS Michele C. Farquhar First, the new mentoring initiative, led by Russell Frisby of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, President is aimed at broadly facilitating collegiality and friendships across senior and junior Jennifer A. Warren levels within the FCBA. The focus will be on hosting one or two events that could President-Elect encourage such relationships (rather than on one-on-one pairing of our members), Anita L. Wallgren and may include programs designed: (1) to advise firms and companies on Secretary establishing and sustaining a mentoring program, and (2) to advise junior attorneys Sheryl J. Wilkerson on how to find mentors both within and without their work situations. Russell will Assistant Secretary be working closely with both the FCBA’s Diversity Committee and Young Lawyers Mark D. Schneider Committee on this effort, and he will discuss the mentoring program at an Treasurer upcoming brown bag lunch meeting of these two committees on October 25 (details Richard S. Whitt are provided in this newsletter). Assistant Treasurer EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Second, the FCBA is beginning an outreach effort to government and public sector attorneys, focused on providing programming and activities targeted to these Carolyn W. Brandon Sally A. Buckman members (held at accessible locations and at affordable rates). Lauren Patrich is Anna M. Gomez spearheading this initiative, and she will work with our President-Elect Jennifer Cheryl A. Leanza Warren and liaisons at other agencies and organizations to survey and better Harry C. Martin understand the needs of these members. The FCBA’s Membership and Marketing Laura H. Phillips Committee, and Executive Committee members Anna Gomez, Lauren Van Wazer, Lauren M. Van Wazer Ryan G. Wallach and Harry Wingo, will also assist with this initiative. Harry Wingo Christopher G. Wood Finally, thanks to organizer and FCBA Secretary Anita Wallgren and to our co-sponsors The Women in Communications Law Committee of the ABA Forum on CHAPTER Communications and the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia for their REPRESENTATIVES contributions to our successful joint reception and advocacy program on September 29. Judith A. Endejan William Levis Michele C. Farquhar DELEGATE TO AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION November 30, 2005 – Save the Date! Brooks E. Harlow YOUNG LAWYERS War of the Worlds – Dozens of think tanks and public interest groups around REPRESENTATIVE Washington make their livings by advancing alternative visions of the Pam F. Slipakoff communications world of the future. The FCBA has brought together the leaders of four of these groups for a candid and informal debate of these alternative world EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR views moderated by FCBA President Michele Farquhar and Bryan Tramont. Stanley D. Zenor Among the questions: What is the proper role of regulation in this future? How do these groups become influential in the policy debate? How or when do they align DEPUTY DIRECTOR themselves with commercial interests to advance their policy views? The panelists Heidi M. Kurtz will be: Ray Gifford, Progress and Freedom Foundation; Andy Schwartzman, Media Jeannine Kenney Jerry Ellig Editor - Heidi M. Kurtz Access Project; , Consumers Union; and , Mercatus Photographer - Mark Van Bergh Center – George Mason University. The luncheon will be held at Hogan & Hartson, LLP, 13th floor, 555 13th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004. The Password as of October 10, 2005: 242 reservation form for this luncheon will be in the November FCBA News. FCBA NEWS 2 OCTOBER 2005 COMMITTEES AND CHAPTERS in the Spotlight (This new feature will run throughout the coming year to highlight each of the substantive committees and chapters.) Photos by Mark Van Bergh Access to Records Committee The Access to Records Committee is co- chaired by Christopher Bjornson of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., Dennis Corbett of Leventhal Senter & Lerman PLLC, and Christine Crowe of Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP. The Access to Records Committee serves as a liaison between the FCBA and the FCC Access to Records Committee, L to R, Dennis Corbett, Christrine Crowe and Chris Bjornson on matters related to paper and electronic filing systems, open records, building access, and systems development. The Committee conducts an annual survey of FCBA members to identify issues with the FCC’s electronic filing systems, and it then shares the results with the Commission’s systems owners in a collaborative effort to improve the FCC’s electronic systems. This year the Committee plans to co-host a training session with FCC staff. This event, patterned after one held in 2003, is intended to provide practical “hands on” demonstrations of advanced ways to navigate the FCC’s electronic systems. The Committee also hopes to host a brown bag lunch on “open government” issues including FOIA and confidentiality requests. Annual Seminar Committee, L to R, Kathy Zachem, Jane Mago, Yaron Dori and Charla Rath panels and debate over timely issues of Another Committee role is to serve as an Annual Seminar relevance to the communications industry, ad hoc liaison with the FCC as issues Committee as well as, of course, a host of social and arise. In the past, the Committee has leisure activities. The Greenbrier, which facilitated discussions between the SAVE THE DATE! is nestled in 6,500 acres of woodlands in Commission and the public on such FCBA ANNUAL SEMINAR TO the Alleghany Mountains, accommodates topics as the Red Light Rule and systems BE HELD AT THE GREENBRIER, over 50 different types of recreational development for several filing systems. MAY 5-7, 2006 activities, including three championship golf courses, indoor and outdoor tennis Please feel free to contact Christopher The 2006 FCBA Annual Seminar will be courts, a 40,000 foot world-class spa, Bjornson at 202.434.7477 or held May 5-7, 2006, at The Greenbrier, an indoor and outdoor pools, a cooking [email protected], Dennis Corbett award-winning, world-class resort located school, whitewater rafting, kayaking, at 202.416.6780 or [email protected], in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, horseback riding, hiking, falconry, fishing, or Christine Crowe at 202.383.3334 or only 4 hours from Washington, DC.