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Julia Ambrose provides transactional and regulatory counsel to media companies navigating the rapidly-changing video programming industry. She is also an experienced litigator, well-versed in commercial and constitutional litigation in all levels of state and federal trial and appellate courts. Presentations & Publications "Recent Developments in the Law of Television and Radio Broadcasting: 2019 Year in Review," UNC School of Law Festival of Legal Learning, February 2020 "Recent Developm...
After serving as a federal law clerk in the Middle District of Alabama for one year, Mr. Bailey began practicing law with the firm in 1980 and has been a shareholder since 1983. Building upon a strong background of product liability and insurance defense, Mr. Bailey's practice has evolved into handling a variety of complex litigation directly for clients who are either self-insured or have control over the selection of defense counsel.Mr. Bailey works closely with corporate counsel and is the...
David A. Ball is a principal in the firm's Litigation , Securities , and Telecommunications & Utilities Groups. Resident in the firm's Bridgeport office, Mr. Ball practices in state and federal court handling complex commercial litigation cases; shareholder and partnership disputes; business tort claims; securities fraud actions; and administrative appeals. He also litigates before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and has extensive experience handling arbitrations before the Am...
June Basden is both an attorney and a Certified Public Accountant with 30 years of experience in commercial finance and banking law . She represents national and regional banks, financial institutions and commercial lenders in a variety of finance transactions, with a special focus on commercial lending and creditors' rights . June has extensive experience in asset-based lending, factoring, single-lender and syndicated credit facilities, loan workouts and modifications, foreclosures, bankrupt...
John's early practice emphasized litigation, antitrust and regulated industries matters. Since 1980 he has worked primarily on public utility matters. His current practice is focused on telecommunications and electric utility issues. John advises and regularly represents telephone companies in regulatory matters before the SC Public Service Commission, state circuit/appellate courts, SC Supreme Court and in FCC matters. Key matters have included all aspects of implementation of the federal Te...
Kristy McAlister Brown is co-chair of the firm's Litigation & Trial Practice Group and leads the firm’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Litigation Practice Team. Ms. Brown focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on class actions and privacy and cyber litigation. She has defended putative class actions across the country and has a strong track record of defeating class certification—both at the trial and appellate levels. Ms. Brown is an experienced pr...
Robert Bunzel is a Principal of the firm. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in civil, criminal and regulatory matters such as venture finance, business and shareholder disputes, environmental and employment law, class actions, data breach and professional malpractice. His practice has involved significant international discovery and foreign court appearances, including examinations in Zurich and Lugano through pioneering requests for civil judicial assistance to Switzerland, as wel...
Vincent H. Chieffo is an entertainment and media litigator with significant trial and appellate experience. His practice also includes entertainment transactional work. His litigation experience encompasses disputes throughout the entertainment business, including those involving copyright and trademark infringement, right of publicity, defamation, the rights of estates and heirs in copyrights and other entertainment assets, idea submission, royalties and participations, and distribution and ...
Tim is a partner of Rembolt Ludtke and his practice includes estate and business planning, estate administration, entity formation, and telecommunications. Tim uses his business and legal experience in working with individuals for their individual estate planning needs, along with families and closely held businesses with business and succession planning. Both SuperLawyers® and Best Lawyers® have recognized Tim in the areas of Trusts, Estates, and Business Planning. Tim and his wife A...
Hillary represents energy, water and wastewater utilities, local governments and other business entities, with a primary focus on utility regulatory matters before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC). She also works with municipalities on utility matters, annexations and reorganizations. Hillary represents investor-owned and municipal utilities before the IURC and in court. She advises on general rate cases, periodic rate adjustment (tracker) proceedings, certificate of public co...
Peter M. Connolly practices telecommunications law, with twenty years of experience in the field. In recent years, his practice emphasized the representation of wireless carriers before the Federal Communications Commission and the courts. He has been Co-Chair of the Wireless Practice Committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association and served as head of the FCBA’s Task Force on Electronic Licensing. Before entering private practice, Mr. Connolly served as Legislative Counsel to ...
Timothy J. Cooney possesses extensive experience in the representation of wireless, wireline and satellite carriers, as well as broadcasters. With 30 years of legal experience in telecommunications, mass media and administrative law, Mr. Cooney's expertise encompasses most areas of common carrier and private carrier telecommunications, including universal service fund (USF), transfer of control, and foreign ownership (including Team Telecom) issues. In addition to counseling carriers and manu...
Dennis handles diverse regulatory and transactional matters, ranging from day-to-day client representation to participation in multiple agency and court proceedings involving issues of industry-wide concern. He also handles major administrative and court litigation, and FCC Enforcement Bureau proceedings, for a wide variety of clients. As a member of the District of Columbia Bar, Dennis is admitted to practice in the Third, Tenth and D.C. Circuits, and before the Supreme Court of the United S...
Bob Corn-Revere has extensive experience in First Amendment law and communications, media and information technology law. He regularly counsels clients and serves as litigation counsel in communications and Internet-related matters. Bob speaks and writes extensively on First Amendment and communications policy issues. Bob also successfully petitioned Governor George E. Pataki to grant the first posthumous pardon in New York history, to the late comedian Lenny Bruce in a landmark pro bono case...
Christine M. Crowe has over 20 years of experience counseling clients in the communications industry on a broad array of transactional, policy and regulatory matters. She has significant transactional expertise, having advised communications companies on mergers and acquisitions, spectrum leasing, financing transactions involving public and private debt and equity offerings, and inter-carrier agreements. Ms. Crowe advises clients on a variety of policy and regulatory matters affecting the tel...
Michelle Thurber Czapski serves as chair of the Insurance Practice Group and has over twenty years of experience representing major corporate clients in litigation and alternative dispute resolution proceedings, including class actions. She has successfully represented insurance and financial service companies, automotive and other product manufacturers, Tier-1 automotive suppliers, telecommunications companies, and pharmaceutical companies in matters involving product liability claims, consu...
Becky is an experienced commercial litigator who counsels and represents clients on employment, communications, and energy-related matters. She is a recognized expert on employment, telecommunications and energy matters. For more than 25 years she has represented business clients in arbitrations, mediations, state and federal court proceedings, and a variety of administrative proceedings before federal, state and local government agencies, including: The Equal Opportunity Commission; The Depa...
A former Assistant General Counsel for the Missouri Public Service Commission, William "Trip" England is a utility lawyer practicing primarily in the area of telecommunications law. Since 1991, Trip has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Communications Law and Energy Law. Trip is a former Vice Chairman of the Communications Committee of the Section of Public Utility Law; Communications and Transportation Law of the American Bar Association. He is a former president of t...
Louise Ann “Luzann” Fernandez is co-chair of the Labor and Employment practice group, with more than 30 years of experience. Luzann is a fierce litigator who is hired by corporations, hospitals, and celebrities for high profile and exposure cases. Luzann does not back down from challenges facing her clients and comes up with out of the box and novel theories. Luzann is also active as an independent investigator. Using her litigation experience, Luzann investigates claims of discri...
Martin Fineman has tried cases for over 30 years in the areas of contract, corporate, telecommunications, securities, intellectual property and international law with an emphasis on class action cases. He has tried numerous cases before judges, juries and arbitrators, and has argued appeals to the California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Martin also is a commercial and securities arbitrator through the American Arbitration Association, a J...
Duane R. Fisher concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate law, hotels and resorts, construction law, business structure and operations and commercial transactions. Mr. Fisher has represented a wide range of business organizations, from hotel owners, telecommunications companies, general contractors, Wall Street investment firms and multi-billion dollar energy development companies to closely held corporations and sole proprietors, in both private transactions and before federal an...
Eric S. Fisher is a director in the firm’s Oklahoma City office. He has spent his career focused on business creation and development, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, operational and compliance matters, and assisting clients grow and manage their businesses. Clients value and rely on Eric for his pragmatic and business-oriented advice. Eric primarily serves as outside general counsel to closely held companies, family businesses, and entrepreneurs and their early stage and emergi...
Peg is a regulatory lawyer who advises and regularly represents telecommunication and other utilities and high tech industries in a range of regulatory matters before the South Carolina Public Service Commission, in state, circuit and appellate courts, and in FCC matters. Prior to joining Burr, Peg served as law clerk to the Honorable C. Tolbert Goolsby, Jr. at the SC Court of Appeals.
Peter L. Gardon is a shareholder and the chairman of the firm's Telecommunications and Energy Practice. He is also a member of the Business Law Practice. Pete draws on decades of successful practice, regulatory and legislative experience to effectively counsel telecommunications and energy companies, financial institutions, health care institutions and other business clients in a variety of complex administrative, regulatory, commercial, litigation and environmental matters. Pete's clients hi...
Mr. Garner, a Member of the firm is a trial lawyer specializing in commercial and complex litigation. He has been lead counsel in cases in New Mexico, California, West Virginia, Kansas, Arizona, Indiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, involving complex and class action litigation ranging from asbestos exposure, benzene exposure, mass closings of big box retailers, noise pollution, commercial, banking, bankruptcy and financial litigation. He is admitted to practice before the fede...
Raymond L. Gifford counsels communications, electric and gas utilities, and information technology companies on state and federal aspects of regulation, administrative law, and competition policy. He is an expert in public utilities law, and the law and economics of regulation of network industries. He represents clients in state and federal courts and agencies, and serves as an expert witness on utility regulation and its history. Mr. Gifford’s law and policy work focuses on the conver...
Jim Grant is an experienced litigator who has handled many large class actions, as well as complex appeals in the 9th Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He regularly represents clients on regulatory matters, often focusing on state taxes and fees. Jim has served as in-house counsel in the wireless telecommunications industry, and has worked with several large telecommunications clients. He has also handled complex litigation involving the Internet and e-commerce issues.
Paul Guarisco practices in the areas of administrative law, business and finance, telecommunications, energy and utilities, and regulatory and governmental matters. He practices primarily before the Louisiana Public Service Commission, representing telecommunications and pipeline carriers, and electric, gas, sewer and water public utilities in all aspects of regulation, including certification, compliance, tariffs, litigation, hearings, audits, rate cases, rulemakings, dispute resolution/medi...
David Guedry is a partner in the Dallas office. He is nationally recognized for more than 25 years of leadership in advising global service providers and Fortune 1000 companies on complex outsourcing relationships, including assisting with developing legal, operational, and business strategies, and translating strategy into the practical negotiation and documentation of deals. David has significant experience managing the complexities of IT and telecommunication outsourcing agreements; busine...
Dan Hardy is a partner at Axley Brynelson, LLP, who has devoted more than 35 years of law practice to areas of telecommunications and public utility law, estate planning, probate and trust administration, wills, trusts and ownership succession planning for closely-held businesses, acquisitions, purchase and sales of businesses, business reorganization, real estate and income tax law. Dan was named as one of Madison’s best estate planning attorneys by Madison Magazine in 2004 and 2005. H...
As an FCC and communications lawyer, Stephen advises broadcasters and other FCC regulated businesses on a host of compliance matters, and he routinely provides all the same services as his colleagues who practice at D.C.-based communications firms. While Stephen maintains productive relationships with members of the FCC Staff, he also maintains a “small market” attitude such that no client is too small or any less important than any other client. In that regard, Stephen has advise...
Jeffrey Hunt practices in the area of commercial litigation, with particular emphasis on First Amendment, media, and intellectual property law. Mr. Hunt has more than 20 years’ experience litigating complex commercial cases involving a wide variety of industries and legal issues, including copyright, trademark, and patent enforcement actions; injunctions; securities litigation; enforcement of non-competition, non-solicitation, and non-disclosure covenants for employers, foreign litigati...
L. Charles Keller assists clients with policy, strategy, and compliance issues related to matters under the jurisdiction of the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau and state regulatory issues. Mr. Keller is recognized as an expert in the FCC’s universal service rules, and works extensively with clients participating in the FCC’s Connect America Fund, Mobility Fund, E-rate, Lifeline, and Rural Health Care support programs, as well as clients with questions or problems related t...
Jordon J. Kimura is a partner in the firms Litigation and Trusts, Estate Planning, and Wealth Management practice groups. His practice focuses primarily on civil, commercial, construction, and probate (wills and trusts) litigation, health care law, medical malpractice defense, and estate planning. He is also the Firm’s Hiring Chair. His key litigation accomplishments include obtaining a dismissal of a construction lawsuit for a large bridge defect case on the basis of the economic loss ...
Jason Krieser advises clients on all aspects of technology transactions, outsourcing matters, telecommunications and other complex commercial contracts. He is an internationally recognized advisor on business process and information technology outsourcing matters, including offshore outsourcing. He also handles technology development and licensing matters, joint ventures, key supply and distribution agreements, manufacturing arrangements, strategic alliances, ecommerce matters and other techn...
Adam D. Krinsky advises communications providers, equipment manufacturers, and trade associations on strategic, policy, and legal matters and represents their interests before the Federal Communications Commission and the Executive Branch. His practice principally focuses on wireless, broadband, satellite, and competition policy issues. Adam joined Wilkinson Barker after five years at the FCC, where he held several senior positions. From 1999-2001, he served as Legal Advisor and then Senior L...
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