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Amy is a member of the firm's Advertising Technology & Media Group in the Washington, D.C. office.  She practices in the telecommunications field, primarily in the areas of media, privacy, data security, and emerging technologies.  She has experience advising clients, including telecommunications providers, broadcasters, and other business entities, with matters pending before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Congress, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and federal courts.

Amy is a member of the Social and Digital Media Task Force.  She co-authored the Data Privacy & Security chapter of the Social Media White Paper entitled "A Legal Guide to the Commercial Risks and Rewards of the Social Media Phenomenon."

Amy represents media clients with regulatory issues spanning media ownership to closed captioning, and channel carriage negotiations to content regulations. She has particular experience in the regulation of vice speech over broadcast facilities and the Internet. Amy assists privacy clients with the development of risk management programs, and counsels clients in the information technology industry with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) regulatory compliance, and the development of Service Level Agreement (SLA) contracts. Amy is also a Co-Chair of the Federal Communications Bar Association's Privacy and Data Security Committee.

Preceding her legal career, Amy spent several years as a technology consultant, during which time she performed network security design and implementation. From 1997 to 2001, Amy owned and operated her own technology consulting company.

Publications

• "The Devil Wears Undisclosed Designer Label? - FCC Comments Raise Issues Regarding Content-Rated Ads and Product Placement Blocking," Adlaw® By Request™ (April 29, 2009)
• "FCC Solicits Comments for a Declaratory Ruling Regarding the TCPA," Adlaw® By Request™ (March 4, 2009)
• "FTC Releases Revised Behavioral Advertising Guidelines - Staff Report May Trigger New Marketing Practices for Your Organization," Adlaw® By Request™ (February 27, 2009)
• "Privacy & Data Security Briefing: Issue 4," Privacy & Data Security Briefing (August 5, 2008)
• "FCC Solicits Comments Regarding Broadcast Localism," FCC Update (February 19, 2008)
• "FCC Chairman Martin Solicits Comments by December 11 on Proposal for Limited Relaxation of Newspaper-Broadcast Cross-Ownership Ban," FCC Update (November 13, 2007)
• "FCC Adopts New Emergency Alert System Standards and Solicits Further Public Comment," FCC Update (July 20, 2007)
• "Recent FCC Developments Regarding Television/Cable Initiatives," FCC Update (April 26, 2007)
• "First Amendment Retaliation Claims by Journalists,” ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Newsletter (2006)
• “Litigating Retaliations Claims After Baltimore Sun v. Ehrlich,” ABA Communications Lawyer (2006)
• “Anatomy of a First Amendment Retaliation Claim,” Media Law Resource Center (2005)
• “Homeland Security and Wireless Telecommunications: The Continuing Evolution of Regulation,” Federal Communications Law Journal, Vol. 57-3 (2005)

Experience

Legal Education

Undergraduate Education

Professional Admissions / Qualifications

• District of Columbia
• Virginia

Professional Affiliations

• American Women in Radio and Television – Member
• Federal Communications Bar Association – Co-Chair, Privacy and Data Security Committee (2009-2010); Co-Chair, Charity Auction Committee (2009-2010); Co-Chair, Commendations Committee (2008-2009); Co-Chair, National Telecommunications Moot Court Committee (2006-2007)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – Member, Communications Society
• International Association of Privacy Professionals – Member
• Internet Society of Greater Washington and the International Engineering Consortium – Member