Partners Bio

Areas of Practice
Telecommunications, Technology, Intellectual Property

Born
February 13, 1969, Miami, Oklahoma

Education
J.D., George Washington University Law School, 1997
B.A., Political Science, Oklahoma State University, 1991

Bar Admissions
Maryland, 1998
District of Columbia, 1999
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 2002

William Layton has over eight years of experience in the telecommunications industry and assists the firm's clients, including wireless service providers and equipment manufacturers, with their regulatory, technology, and transactional matters. William’s responsibilities include reviewing and drafting purchase and spectrum lease agreements and interacting with engineers and in-house counsel on a daily basis to discuss the construction and operation of communications facilities in compliance with the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and the FCC’s rules. He has been an attorney with Wilkinson Barker since 1999.

William has experience with many facets of telecommunications regulation, including the FCC’s Enhanced-911 deployment requirements, acquiring spectrum through FCC auctions and secondary market transactions, network outage reporting obligations, environmental rules applicable to tower siting, and rules applicable to specific licensed services such as cellular, broadband PCS and common carrier microwave. In addition to his extensive experience with telecommunications, William has assisted clients with copyright and trademark registrations. In law school, William was an Articles Editor for the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal.