Cell and Wireless Tower Law: A regulatory and transactional primer [Including 1hr of Ethics] (2024 Edition)

Brittany Weidner | Best Best & Krieger LLP

Brittany Weidner is an associate at Best Best & Krieger LLP, where her practice focuses on telecommunications. She works closely with local governments and public agencies advising on regulatory and transactional matters involving broadband and fiber networks, cable and telecom franchising, leases and licenses, and wireless communication facilities.

Prior to joining BBK, Brittany was an associate at Austin Legal Group, APC, where her practice primarily focused on California commercial cannabis law and land use entitlement matters. She advised and represented private cannabis entities on a broad range of regulatory compliance matters and obtained complex cannabis land use approvals through traditional land use application processes and highly-competitive, merit-based licensing application processes.

Brittany is a San Diego native who enjoys live music, hiking, and spending time with her husband, family, and friends under the California sunshine.

Bennett Givens | Best Best & Krieger LLP

Bennett A. Givens is an associate at Best Best & Krieger LLP who focuses on telecommunications, land use and real estate. He regularly assists clients in California and across the country with a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters involving broadband and fiber networks, cable and telecom franchising, leases and licenses, wireless communications and public-private partnerships.

Bennett primarily represents public agencies, cooperatives, nonprofits and small competitive providers on a wide range of issues related to telecommunications infrastructure.

While earning his law degree at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Bennett served as chief research editor for the Entertainment Law Review.

Michael R. Overly | Foley & Lardner LLP

Michael Overly is a partner in Foley & Lardner’s Information Technology & Outsourcing Group and Privacy, Security and Information Management Groups. He is one of the few practicing lawyers who has satisfied the rigorous requirements necessary to obtain the Certified Information System Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Controls (CRISC), Certified Outsourcing Professional (COP), and Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) certifications. He writes and speaks frequently regarding negotiating and drafting technology transactions and the legal issues of technology in the workplace, e-mail, and electronic evidence. He has written numerous articles and books on these subjects and is a frequent commentator in the national press (e.g., the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, ABCNEWS.com, CNN, and MSNBC) and has testified before the U.S. Congress regarding online issues.

Session I – Cell and Wireless Tower Law: A regulatory and transactional primer | 2:00pm – 3:40pm

• Developments driving deployment | 2:00pm – 2:30pm
• Law governing the placement of wireless facilities | 2:30pm – 3:00pm

Break | 3:00pm – 3:10pm

• Key issues in managing placement and design of wireless facilities | 3:10pm – 3:25pm
• Leasing facilities to wireless providers | 3:25pm – 3:40pm

Session II – The Ethics and Legality of Using Smartphones and other Mobile Devices in the Legal Profession | 3:40pm – 4:50pm

• Understanding Ethical Obligations | 3:40pm – 3:55pm
• Fundamentals of Information Security | 3:55pm – 4:10pm

Break | 4:10pm – 4:20pm

• Sources of Risk | 4:20pm – 4:30pm
• Human Factor | 4:30pm – 4:40pm
• Incident Response | 4:40pm – 4:50pm