 |
 |
|
It is time to renew your FCBA membership. Your current membership expires June 30, 2010. When renewed, your membership will be good through June 30, 2011. Please note that the deadline is JULY 31, 2010.
Click here for renewal instructionsIf you are currently not a member and would like to join the FCBA, click here. |
The 2010 Membership Directories are now available for purchase. Cost: Members $60.00; Law Student Members $35.00; Non-Members $115.00. There is a 10% discount for orders of 10 or more Directories.
Click here to order a 2010 Membership Directory |
We now have event registration, membership renewals and the FCBA membership directory available online.
Click here to Login |
 | Friday, September 10, 12:15 – 1:45 p.m.Privacy & Data Security Committee Brown Bag Lunch and Committee Meeting. Location: USTelecom, 607 14th Street, NW, Suite 400. Topic: This combination Brown Bag Lunch and Committee Meeting will feature brief presentations from Committee Co-Chairs on major initiatives and potential developments in the area of Privacy and Data Security over the course of the next twelve months. Presentations will highlight the agendas for the FTC, the FCC, the states, Congress and international regulators. We also will discuss the Committee’s plans and priorities for the coming year, including an evening CLE on ECPA reform, another CLE on international Privacy and Data Security law developments, and the 6th Annual Symposium on Privacy and Data Security. The Committee also will kick-off two special initiatives to carry out the FCBA's 75th Anniversary theme " Pay It Forward" through mentoring and community service. Join us for the initiation of a Privacy Professional Mentoring Program and our plan to create, develop and implement a tween/teen-targeted video tutorial and related educational materials on safe use of the Internet for use in classrooms across the country. New members are welcome! Speakers: S. Jenell Trigg; Genie Barton; John Heitmann; and Karen Henein.
Click here to RSVP | | Tuesday, September 14, 12:15 – 1:30 p.m.Mass Media Committee Brown Bag Lunch. Location: National Association of Broadcasters, 1771 N Street, NW. Topic: Political Broadcasting Update. Speakers: Bobby Baker and Hope Cooper, FCC Media Bureau
| | Thursday, September 16, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Legislative and Young Lawyers Committees Happy Hour. Location: Poste Moderne Brasserie, 555 8th Street, NW, 202-783-6060. Closest Metro: Gallery Place. Details: All are welcome, so come on out and encourage your friends and colleagues to join you and mingle with other members of the bar. Special guests from the Hill have also been invited to attend the event. For more information: Contact Mark Brennan, mark.brennan@hoganlovells.com.
| | Monday, September 20, 12:15 – 1:30 p.m.Broadband and Intellectual Property Committees Brown Bag Lunch. Location: Hogan Lovells US LLP, 555 13th Street, NW. Topic: ISPs and Copyright Infringers, or "Am I My (Warner) Brothers Keeper?": Title I, Title II, Graduated Response, and Network Management. Speakers: Christopher Wolf, Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP; Michael Nelson, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University, Communication, Culture and Technology Program; Markham Erickson, Executive Director, Open Internet Coalition
| | Tuesday, September 21, 12:15 – 1:30 p.m.Engineering and Technical Practice Committee Brown Bag Lunch. Location: Covington and Burling, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 11 th Floor Reception Area, Room 1139. For security purposes, please RSVP in advance. Topic: Annual Kick-off Lunch Featuring Douglas Sicker, FCC Chief Technologist. Join us to catch-up with other Committee members, discuss planning for the year, and meet new FCC Chief Technologist Doug Sicker. Mr. Sicker is also an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and previously served as a senior advisor on the FCC National Broadband Plan. He will discuss his role as the Chief Technologist, a position he assumed this summer. In addition, bring your ideas and interests for the upcoming year as the Committee works to plan future brown bags, CLEs and other activities. Contact: Jamison Prime, jamison.prime@fcc.gov.
| | Thursday, September 23, 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Florida Chapter Program on Telecommunications and Electric Utilities: Current Issues. Presented by the FCBA Florida Chapter and the Florida Bar Administrative Law Section Public Utilities Law Committee. Location: Betty Easley Conference Center, Room 152, Tallahassee, FL 32399, 850-413-6082. Cost: TBD. For more information: Look to the FCBA website in late August and the September newsletter. | | Friday, September 24, 12:15 – 1:30 p.m.Young Lawyers Committee Brown Bag Lunch. Location: WilmerHale, 1875 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Topic: Anatomy of a Rulemaking. More Info: David Horowitz, Assistant General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, will provide an overview of the FCC's rulemaking processes and the underlying legal requirements. In addition, Heather Zachary, Counsel, WilmerHale, will discuss how parties can preserve their appellate options during a rulemaking and exercise those options after the proceeding closes. Contact: Micah Caldwell ( mcaldwell@fh-law.com) or Mark Brennan ( mark.brennan@hoganlovells.com).
| | Tuesday, September 28, 6:00 – 8:15 p.m.CLE Seminar on ECPA Reform: Protecting Privacy and Security in the Digital Age. Presented by the Privacy and Data Security Committee. Location: TBD.
| | Thursday, September 30, 1:00 – 6:30 p.m.New England Chapter Program and Reception. Location: Hilton Burlington Hotel, 60 Battery Street, Burlington, VT 05401. Topic: Telecommunications in Vermont. Cost: $20.00 admission for FCBA members; $30.00 for non-FCBA members; $10.00 for Vermont state telecom staff and law students.
| | Wednesday, October 6, 12:15 – 1:45 p.m.Engineering and Technical Practice and Young Lawyers Committees Brown Bag Lunch. Location: Hogan Lovells US LLP, 555 13th Street, NW. Topic: Engineering for Lawyers: How Understanding Basic RF Issues Can Help You Advocate Better for Your Clients. Mitchell Lazarus, a technology lawyer who holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from MIT, will provide an overview of RF technologies and technical issues relating to the FCC's radio rules. There will also be a Q&A session after the presentation. Speaker: Mitchell Lazarus, Partner, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C. Contacts:Mark Brennan ( mark.brennan@hoganlovells.com) and Laura Stefani ( lstefani@g2w2.com)
| | Tuesday, October 12, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.Young Lawyers Pre-Charity Auction Happy Hour. Location: 14K Restaurant, 1001 14th Street, NW (14th and K Street), 202-218-7575. More Info: Join the Young Lawyers Committee for happy hour at 14K Restaurant on the premises of the site of the 2010 FCBA Charity Auction. All are welcome, and all Charity Auction volunteers are encouraged to attend. Draft beer, house wine and rail drinks, along with the bar menu, will all be available at half price! 14K Restaurant is easily accessible off the Orange/Blue Lines from the McPherson Square Metro stop. For more information, contact: Mark Brennan ( mark.brennan@hoganlovells.com). | | Monday, October 25, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.Atlanta Chapter Reception to Meet and Greet the Honorable Mignon Clyburn. Location: Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, 171 17th Street, NW, Suite 2100, Atlanta, GA 30363. Cost: No charge. RSVP by October 18 to: fcbaatlantachapter@fh2.com. | | 4th Sunday of each monthMcKenna’s Wagon - Groups of 5-6 are needed to assist with McKenna’s Wagon each month on the following dates in 2010: 5/23, 6/27, 7/25, 8/22, 9/26, 10/24, 11/28, and 12/26. McKenna’s Wagon is a mobile soup and sandwich wagon that goes “on location” to deliver food to the needy. For those who have volunteered, it has been a wonderful experience and a great way to help the needy in the D.C. community. The Wagon is a white van that is loaded up with sandwiches, snacks and soup. We meet at Martha's Table at 4:45 pm in comfortable clothes and shoes. Martha's Table is located in a yellow building at 2114 Fourteenth Street, NW, in the District, near the intersection of 14th and U Streets. On-street parking is available. Upon arrival we get assignments (some of us will distribute snacks and sandwiches, others will serve soup), and put on aprons before we depart in the van to 5th and New York Ave., NW (near the new Convention Center). We are driven by one of our experienced volunteers and the trip to distribution location takes about 10-15 minutes. We serve about 30-75 people per visit including a few mothers who come for food for their families. The area is well patrolled by police. The food distribution is conducted in an efficient, calm and orderly fashion and many of the people we serve are quite appreciative of our efforts. Once we serve all of the food, we do a clean up of the immediate area. Total time for the distribution takes about one hour and we usually return to Martha's Table by or before 6:30 p.m. Please contact Joanna Georgatsos at georgatsos@lojlaw.com if you are able to assist in this effort. | | Last Sunday of each monthMartha's Table - Volunteers are needed for the following dates in 2010: 5/30, 6/27, 7/25, 8/29, 9/26, 10/31, 11/28, and 12/26. Martha's Table feeds hundreds of hungry, homeless adults and children on the streets of Washington daily, through its mobile soup kitchen. Children and friends are also welcome. We will begin at 10:00 am and work until 1:00 pm. Martha's Table is located in a yellow building at 2114 Fourteenth Street, NW, in the District, near the intersection of 14th and U Streets. On-street parking is available. Volunteers are asked to bring food if possible, (e.g., cold cuts, bread, peanut butter, jelly, vegetables and potatoes) because the center often runs out of donated food. The FCBA volunteers on the last Sunday of every month, so mark your calendars now. For more information, contact Howard Weiss at 703-812-0471 -- weiss@fhhlaw.com. |
|
|
Officers and Executive Committee