J. Brian DeBoice This is Me

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1. 1. Biographies-Expanded

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   Published on: 5/28/2008   Last Visited: 5/28/2008

   J. Brian DeBoice, a partner in the law firm Cohn and Marks LLP, advises media clients on a wide array of legal issues.He regularly counsels television and radio broadcasters, cable television system operators and telecommunications companies regarding regulatory, legal, litigation and contract matters.He has also advised program networks, publishers, trade associations, equipment manufacturers and advertising agencies regarding federal regulatory issues which affect those industries.
   
   Brian has particular expertise in regulatory, contractual and litigation matters that affect cable television systems and broadcast television stations.He advises cable and broadcast clients regarding cable television franchising and franchise renewal, mandatory broadcast signal carriage and "must carry" market modification, cable rate regulation, network and syndicated programming exclusivity and related matters.He also regularly assists cable television and broadcast clients in the negotiation of contracts, including cable franchise agreements, network affiliation agreements, broadcast retransmission consent agreements and cable leased access agreements.Brian advises broadcast clients regarding federal regulatory issues relating to broadcast licensing, and he advises both broadcast and cable television clients regarding the entire range of federal regulatory compliance issues that affect these industries.Brian has served as lead litigation counsel in many contested broadcast licensing proceedings before the FCC and in court, as well as in many contested agency and court cases relating to cable television franchising and other federal regulatory issues affecting the broadcast and cable television industries.
   
   Brian also has particular expertise in areas of Federal law relating to program and advertising content, including laws governing children's programming and commercial limitations, political advertising and cablecasting, libel and slander, rights of privacy and publicity and other content-based restrictions on advertising and program content.In addition to counseling broadcast, cable television and advertising agency clients regarding content-based issues, Brian has provided counsel on First Amendment issues to both electronic and print media clients.
   
   Brian has been a panelist and speaker at national and regional media conventions, has participated in symposiums regarding communications law, and has published articles about communications law issues, privacy rights and First Amendment issues.He has been admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and in Illinois, and is a member of the American, District of Columbia and Federal Communications Bar Associations.He is a graduate of the University of Illinois (J.D., magna cum laude, 1979) and Kenyon College (A.B., cum laude with distinction, 1973).Prior to joining Cohn and Marks LLP in 1980, Brian served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Philip W. Tone of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

2. 2. www.cohnmarks.com

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   Published on: 5/8/2008   Last Visited: 6/15/2008

   J. Brian DeBoice: Kenyon College (A.B., cum laude, with distinction, 1973); University of Illinois (J.D., magna cum laude, 1979); Order of the Coif; Member, 1977-1978, Managing Editor, 1978-1979, University of Illinois Law Forum; Law Clerk to the Hon. Philip W. Tone and the Hon. William J. Bauer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1979-1980; Author, Due Process Privacy and the Path of Progress, 1979 U. Ill. L. Forum 469; Panelist, National Association of Broadcasters Conferences.
   
   Contact: Brian.DeBoice@cohnmarks.com