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Shirley S. Fujimoto is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Washington, D.C. office. She is co-head of the firm's Telecommunications Practice Group, where her practice focuses on communications and technology law and regulation.
Shirley represents corporate, industrial and emerging company entities, including competitive communications carriers, energy companies, wireless carriers, broadband providers, high-tech equipment manufacturers and internet service providers.
Shirley acts for a variety of communications and technology clients on the regulatory aspects of their business ventures and on compliance with the vast array of rules promulgated by federal and state agencies. She has extensive experience in regulatory issues associated with new technologies and entry into new communications markets and in identifying business opportunities created by regulatory and technology developments. She represents clients before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and state regulatory commissions, including day-to-day counseling on regulatory compliance, participation in policy and rulemaking proceedings, and strategies to enhance business opportunities in a complex legal and regulatory environment. She also provides strategic business planning advice to clients, including the negotiation and drafting of contracts covering a wide range of telecommunications-related products and services.
She has prosecuted and defended communications-related complaints before the FCC and has also represented clients in appellate courts as petitioners for judicial review of an agency decision or as interveners on behalf of a party.
Shirley has also represented multiple clients in connection with pending telecommunications-related legislation.
Shirley is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia, and is admitted to practice in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Representative Experience:
Advising wireless entities on the strategic and regulatory issues associated with acquiring and disposing of radio spectrum, including bidding at government sponsored spectrum auctions
Advising entrepreneurs on federal and state telecommunication laws applicable to internet service providers and utilizing the internet for the transmission of video, radio and telephony
Advising clients on federal, state and local regulation of access to infrastructure for broadband networks, local franchise and right-of-way issues, and state regulatory issues for new broadband providers
Counseling Fortune 500 companies on negotiation of large communications service contracts with major carriers
Counseling corporate clients on regulations protecting privacy of communications
Advising corporations on becoming competitive carriers in both the local and interstate markets and on the associated regulatory issues such as tariff requirements, interconnection arrangements and intercarrier compensation
Advising large users on all aspects of federal and state laws applying to the operation of private networks
Education:
Antioch School of Law, J.D., 1976
Northwestern University, B.A., 1973 | 