AREAS OF PRACTICE

The firm specializes in two areas of law: litigation and communications law.

In litigation, the firm represents clients on a variety of commercial cases, including high technology disputes involving copyright law, trade secret law, internet domain names, software licensing, and FCC rules and policies. The firm also has an expertise in employment law, insurance coverage, and professional liability -- including the defense of attorney malpractice claims. The firm litigates cases in federal and state courts throughout the country, as well as in arbitration. The firm won a $3.2 million jury verdict in a landmark software piracy case for a software developer, Stenograph, L.L.C., which has been sustained by the trial and appellate courts and cited in law review articles and treatises. The firm also has secured valuable insurance coverage, through litigation and negotiation, for a number of businesses, officers and directors, and other individuals.

Recently the firm served for approximately a year as general counsel to a court-appointed Receiver in a multi-party proceeding to operate and effectuate the sale of a FM commercial radio station in Sacramento, California. In addition, the firm has served as a Trustee of a liquidating trust, holding and selling PCS licenses for the benefit of a creditor-beneficiary arising out of a bankruptcy matter. These matters required expertise in the areas of state receivership law, litigation, commercial transactions and FCC regulatory law.

In the communications law field, the firm has a special expertise in representing clients on major communications matters involving the wireless telephone (PCS and cellular telephone), telephone, and radio and television industries, before the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC").

The firm handles a variety of complex regulatory, licensing, transactional, and litigation matters before the FCC.  The firm has represented clients in many significant cases pending before the FCC in which major industry players have had core license holdings at stake, including most recently the NextWave PCS license cancellation case.  The firm has also represented major financial institutions considering and making investments involving various new communications technologies.