Mr. Flick focuses on legal issues impacting mass media and new communications technologies. He represents broadcast stations and networks before federal regulatory agencies and counsels them on regulatory, transactional, business, policy and technology issues. His practice helps clients address issues involving program distribution, cable and satellite television and radio, program rights, and related IP issues. He also seeks changes in federal communications law and policy on behalf of clients and assesses the impact of proposed legislative and regulatory changes.  He has also worked with municipalities and public utilities seeking to build and operate hybrid fiber-coaxial video and data distribution systems, structuring such ventures to operate in the current regulatory framework.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Flick was a partner at Fisher Wayland Cooper Leader & Zaragoza, a communications-oriented law firm that merged with Pillsbury in April 2000.

• Long-term representation of national broadcast and cable networks on business and regulatory matters, including programming and intellectual property issues.
• Approximately $20 Billion of broadcast station sales and acquisitions, including structuring, negotiating and drafting transactional and litigation documents relating to those transactions.
• Drafting proposed legislation on media issues and securing its enactment, as well as coordinating opposition to pending or planned legislation on behalf of media entities.
• Negotiating and drafting network affiliation, programming, advertising, and services agreements for media companies, as well as tower and studio leases.
• Negotiating and drafting of cable and satellite retransmission agreements, as well as handling of extensive carriage-related litigation.
• Negotiation and drafting of construction and usage agreements for communications-related infrastructure.

District of Columbia Bar, State of California Bar, Federal Communications Bar Association

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia