Speaker 04.14.24
The Eras of Broadcasting: Everything Has Changed (New Tech - 3.0, A.I., and Evermore!)
8:00AM - 5:30PM PDT
Wynn Las Vegas
Lee is driven to provide practical, business-oriented advice to his clients on how to navigate the intersection of technology and the law.
Lee Petro, Pillsbury special counsel located in Washington, DC, advises clients in the communications industry, specializing his practice in broadcast, wireless, satellite, and telecommunications companies.
Lee brings over 25 years of experience advising his clients before the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, Congress and state public utility commissions. His focuses include regulatory compliance, emerging technologies, transactions and intellectual property. Lee represents broadcasters, wireless and satellite companies on transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions and spectrum leasing. Lee also works with innovative consumer and industrial product companies to obtain FCC approval for new uses of spectrum through experimental licensing and obtaining equipment authorizations for new products. Lee works with public school districts, health care providers and other nonprofit entities in obtaining funding from the FCC and the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) for broadband and telehealth connectivity projects.
Lee is a regular contributor to CommLawCenter.com, Pillsbury’s one-stop resource center covering a wide array of communications law matters, as well as guest contributor for Pillsbury’s Gravel2Gavel and Global Trade and Sanction Law blogs. Lee is helping to lead his Firm’s interdisciplinary team addressing the regulatory and legislative efforts involving generative artificial intelligence. Lee is past president of the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA), past chair of the FCBA Foundation, and serves on the board of directors for the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.
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Education
J.D., The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
COMMLAW CONSPECTUS: Journal of Communications Law & Policy; Editor-in-Chief: 1996-1997; Author: A New Trial For Solomon: Comparative Hearings after Bechtel II, Volume 4, No. 2 (1996)
B.A., Michigan State University
Admissions
District of Columbia
Maryland