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Michelle’s unfailing dedication to her clients is evidenced by the fact that her first client, whom she worked with as a first-year associate over 20 years ago, remains an active client. She establishes strong and lasting relationships by committing herself to client service. Michelle understands her clients’ business goals, guides them in their use of new technologies, and communicates with them as their business activities unfold.. Michelle’s practice is focused on helping her clients establish powerful and lasting relationships with their customers and prospects. Whether engaging audiences through sweepstakes/contests, social networks, telemarketing, text, or email marketing, Michelle ensures that her clients’ communications comply with current marketing and privacy laws and regulations. For clients who have embraced the popularity of online promotions and gamification, Michelle keeps programs running smoothly by providing guidance on the necessary rules, thresholds and disclosures in the midst of a constantly changing legal landscape. As clients rely more on social media to publicize promotions, Michelle provides up-to-the minute legal counsel related to the rules on Twitter, Facebook and other social sites.. As Ifrah Law increasingly leads the way in iGaming, Michelle advises daily fantasy sports and e-Sports companies on privacy matters, including drafting online terms and conditions, and preparing legal opinions and analysis to support iGaming companies’ launching of their services, including working with payment processors.. When clients find themselves involved in an enforcement matter with the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission or state agencies, Michelle’s deep knowledge in these areas and her strong footing in the privacy community help her to resolve issues in the most expedient manner possible. Michelle has extensive experience defending individual and class actions in the consumer protection context, including dozens of Telephone Consumer Protection Act cases. She obtained a rare rescission of an FCC citation in a TCPA enforcement matter.. Michelle also advises clients as to what policies and procedures can be put in place to show a company’s good faith efforts, should the government come knocking. When companies are involved in potential data or security breaches, Michelle knows which questions to ask to ensure they have a sound legal strategy. She works with the company step-by-step to resolve the situation from both the government’s, and her clients’ as well as their customers’ points of view.. Previously, Michelle was a partner at Thompson Hine where she was a member of their telecommunications, corporate transactions & securities and emerging technologies groups. She began her legal career in the litigation department at Paul Hastings, where she spent seven years honing her litigation skills, prior to moving into their corporate practice. Her litigation experience gives her a solid foundation for helping clients avoid litigation as well as in advising them when they are faced with litigation. This litigation experience, coupled with her regulatory and corporate experience, allow Michelle to offer her clients a full complement of services.

Lane H. Blumenfeld is the managing attorney of VIRTUAL In-House Counsel, PLLC, a solo practice he founded to address client's growing demand for their outside counsel to respond to business challenges in an "in-house way."  Having been a client himself, including as chief counsel for a public IT company with global operations, he understands what those on the inside seek from their attorneys on the outside:  practical, business-oriented solutions, provided quickly and priced reasonably.  Drawing upon his in-house experience in the technology and communications industries, he helps emerging growth companies solve their commerical, corporate, and technology law problems.  In addition, he serves as a virtual general counsel for clients without or between chief legal officers.  Moreover, his VIRTUAL approach, by avoiding big law firm overhead and charging by project, not time, eliminates hourly billing's inherent inefficiency and unpredictability.

Kurt R. Klaus, Esq., Partner, Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig, PLLC. Kurt R. Klaus, Esq., is a media/entertainment business and legal affairs attorney – backed by years of in-house, law firm, and Of Counsel experience. He was Director, Business and Legal Affairs at 21st Century FOX/National Geographic Channels for four and one-half years.. Acknowledging that media is ever changing- Kurt believes it is a privilege to work on media/entertainment matters that bring new challenges at a rapid pace- viewing these as means to learn, lead, and grow and thus opportunities to help clients advance their endeavors at a timely pace. Kurt uses a proactive approach to identify and implement collaborative and often cross-functional solutions and risk mitigation options. He simultaneously supports senior executives and multiple other stakeholders across a variety of matters.. Kurt provides business and legal counsel mirroring the needs of emerging and conventional media/content landscapes. He designs, implements, and supports legal frameworks for digital and conventional media content and related asset development, creation, production, distribution, and exploitation. He supports legal aspects of neighboring branding, marketing, and social media functions and partnerships including direct-to-digital production and influencer engagements.. Kurt regularly functions as lead attorney on domestic and international transactions involving many of the world’s leading media companies and provides creative and practical guidance with related legal and business strategies. He has been legal counsel to top world brand corporate marketing departments, in-house legal departments, social media departments, deal leads of branded content, television networks, content syndication/licensing departments, independent producers, production companies, web designers, TV talent, musicians, music composers, recording studios, digital game developers, and media entrepreneurs on a wide variety of media, intellectual property, project financing, and corporate organization matters.. Outside of legal practice, Kurt was an executive in two mid-sized media production and distribution companies and functioned as a producer, assistant director, and production manager of television commercials and corporate films (140+ projects), earning 16 regional and national awards. Kurt also worked in the production departments of multiple LA-based studio feature films. In addition to a Juris Doctor, Kurt holds a M.S. in Communications (Advertising) and a B.S. in Recording Industry.

Jarrett S. Taubman is counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins, where he represents providers of telecommunications, media, Internet and other communications services (and their investors) before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), state public utilities commissions and various courts. Mr. Taubman assists clients in implementing strategies to facilitate the development of favorable regulatory policy, structuring transactions and securing required regulatory consents, and ensuring ongoing compliance with complex regulatory requirements. Much of his practice involves the navigation of the complex legal and policy issues raised by the advent of broadband services. Mr. Taubman also represents both communications and non-communications clients before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a multi-agency group with the statutory authority to review and block proposed US investments by non-US sources, and the Defense Security Service.

I've spent 36 years representing clients before the FCC, federal and state courts.  In 2003 I joined with several other DC residents to vindicate our right to keep and bear functional firearms for self-protection.  Since that time I have become deeply immersed in federal and state law regulating firearms and self-defense.  I became an NRA handgun instructor and was certified by the Maryland State Police to teach concealed carry applicants in Maryland.. In 2008 the United States Supreme Court vindicated our rights in the landmark DC v. Heller case.  I then joined with several other DC residents to sue DC for the right to carry a firearm for personal protection.  In July of 2014 the Federal District Court enjoined DC's prohibition on carrying firearms for personal protection.  That case led to the first issuance of concealed carry licenses in DC since 1976.  I was one of the first persons certified by the District of Columbia Police Department to teach concealed carry applicants and have taught approximately one-half of the persons who have been granted carry licenses in the District.. In May of 2015, I joined the law firm of Bergstrom & Taylor to continue to advocate for the rights of gun owners.

I'm currently working on a variety of Federal Broadband Grant projects; international telecommunications outsourcing projects; an appeal of an FCC spectrum licensing decision, and various wireless/wireline/satellite transactional matters.

I have been practicing communications law since 1978, specializing in issues involving emerging spectrum-based technologies and FCC equipment authorization.  I have represented wireless broadband system operators, FCC licensees, cable systems, telecommunications equipment manufacturers, financing sources, and domestic and foreign investors in American communications companies.  I crafted the industry coalition proposal for restructuring the US 2.5 GHz regulatory regime that was largely adopted by the FCC in 2004, and has played an active role in the development of the 2.3 GHz, 3.65 GHz, 5 GHz and LMDS bands.. I appear before the FCC, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Rural Utilities Service, the Department of Justice, the Department of State, and federal and state courts. I regularly assist clients in connection with the FCC's rules governing equipment authorization and the allocation, licensing and regulation of spectrum. I frequently provide transaction support for clients implementing spectrum leases, asset and stock acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and financings. I also represent emerging wireless service providers in access, franchising and zoning disputes with local governments.

I am the owner and editor of The Legal Forum and the weekly email newsletter Legal Forum News. I have handled criminal defense and workers compensation cases. I also have written on a wide variety of legal issues, everything from constitutional law to government regulation to environmental law.

Broadcast and lecture audiences can count on Andrew Kreig to deliver blunt, entertaining and cutting-edge commentary about the latest public affairs scandals, trends, and under-reported news, including about 2016 candidates. He provides also practical tips for the millions of Americans caught up in unfair litigation or regulation. Based in Washington, DC, Andrew is a passionate and accomplished fighter for the public interest. He delivers to audiences a rare combination of insider revelations about current events, local scandals, national trends, and self-help for civic reformers and fellow researchers. Learn from his decades of reporting, analysis and advocacy:    -- Shocking tales of recent corruption, deception and cover-up by both parties in communities ranging from small towns to world capitals; and    -- Practical how-to tips for reformers on action that brings real-world results.     As editor of the non-partisan Justice Integrity Project, Kreig draws from a trove of sources. His acclaimed book, "Presidential Puppetry," was first book on the Obama second term and it reveals devastating hidden histories about Washington insiders in both political parties. Andrew argues that the same pattern of under-reported news is occurring in 2016 races, badly hurting the public.His background includes 14 years as a metro newspaper reporter, plus degrees from Yale Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, and Cornell. He has lectured on five continents and is a frequent radio, TV, and cable news commentator.A former Golden Gloves regional finalist, Andrew shows how the public can fight back —but only by hitting hard at the right spots.

Although we still litigate, the bulk of our practice is now crisis management and representation of investigative journalists. We believe that success means that no one knows about a problem or, if it is already public, that we enlist all of Washington's resources to solve the problem. When we represented Westinghouse we broke the Uranium Cartel which threatened to bankrupt Westinghouse.