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Robert G. Kirk

Areas of Practice Telecommunications Law Appellate and Administrative Litigation Information Technology Law Internet Law Born August 2, 1966, Arlington, Massachusetts Education J.D., George Washington University National Law Center, 1991 Editor-in-Chief, George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics, 1990-91 B.A., Merrimack College, 1988 Bar Admissions Massachusetts, 1992 District of Columbia, 1994 U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1994 U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1996 U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1995 U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 1998 U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1997 U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1996

Bob Kirk has been advising clients on all aspects of commercial mobile radio service  for more than a decade.  He has participated in a wide-variety of rulemaking and adjudicatory proceedings of interest to the wireless industry.  He also has appeared before the Federal Communications Commission to secure regulatory approvals for many of the largest mergers and transactions in the wireless industry.

Mr. Kirk is a recognized expert with regard to compliance with the Commission’s enhanced 911 and do-not-call rules as well as FCC enforcement matters generally.  His experience ranges from defending clients against informal complaints to negotiating consent decrees with the FCC in formal complaint  cases.  He also has substantial appellate experience and has served as an expert witness regarding wireless telecommunications.

Mr. Kirk also has conducted tutorials for a variety of clients with respect to U.S. regulations that  impact wireless licensees and co-authored the Telecommunications Act Handbook, a Complete Reference for Business (Government Institutes, 1996), and Beyond the Telecommunications Act, A Domestic and International Perspective for Business (Government Institutes, 1998).  During law school, he served as editor-in-chief of the George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics.

Mr. Kirk appears regularly before the Federal Communications Commission and the federal courts.  He is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association. 

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