With offices in Washington, DC and Denver, CO, Wilkinson Barker Knauer assists clients in all sectors of the communications field on a wide range of matters. The Firm, which has earned "top tier" ratings from Chambers USA, The Legal 500, and U.S. News-Best Lawyers, provides strategic advice and advocacy on legal, regulatory, and policy issues at the state and federal level, offers counsel on corporate and commercial transactions (including on some of the largest recent transactions), and handles enforcement and litigation proceedings.
With one of the largest communications and technology practices in the country and roots that go back to the early 1950s, the Firm takes advantage of its attorneys' significant experience in government service, in private practice, and as in-house counsel for communications companies. The Firm combines the services, capabilities, standards, and proven expertise of a large communications practice with the value, flexibility, and client-oriented personal style that only a smaller firm can deliver.
Firm practice areas include wireless and wired telecommunications, media content and distribution, broadband regulation, satellite telecommunications, smart grid, privacy and data security, utilities law and regulation, tower siting and infrastructure, and state regulation.
The Firm's clients range from the largest communications and technology companies in the world to small start-ups. They include mobile and fixed wireless network operators, local exchange and interexchange companies, broadcasters, cable television operators, utility companies, broadband technology and networking companies, satellite and international operators, information service providers, equipment manufacturers and retailers, infrastructure owners, and trade associations.
The firm represents clients before the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Rural Utilities Service, the federal courts, as well as other federal and state agencies and utilities commissions.