I am a FCC licensed amateur radio operator (extra class, callsign K6VK, xKV6LEE). I serve as an ARRL Volunteer Counsel and a Government Liaison. I have been a principal in the Auxiliary Communications System of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management (Liaison Officer) and I have served as the ARES Emergency Coordinator for San Francisco. It was my privilege to present the seminar "Amateur Radio Operators and The Law" at ARRL Pacificon in 2008. MY QRZ radio biography follows:
"Forty some odd years ago, Popular Electronics bestowed on me the "Cinderella" callsign WPE2DLT, and short wave radio has been my main hobby since those days. I made my first radio 50+ years ago, using a razor blade and pencil lead detector. Radio remains for me a challenging, sometimes surprising, always interesting and pleasantly social avocation.
"An interest in emergency services led me to get my amateur radio license in 1999 (presently Extra Class). In September, 2001, New York Red Cross put me to work using amateur radio for disaster relief from September 12 to September 20, as the night-shift "trick-chief" acting as the deputy to Jay Ferron, N4GAA (see Popular Communications, Sept. 2002 issue: [Lee] "9-11: Amateur Radio in New York"). I have served as the A.R.E.S. Emergency Coordinator in the ARRL San Francisco Section for the City of San Francisco, and as Liaison Officer for the Auxiliary Communications Service of the City of San Francisco Office of Emergency Services and Homeland Security (now Emergency Management). Emergency services associations have permitted me to train as a First Responder Medic, as a member of my neighborhood Emergency Response Team, and in the Incident Command System 200 Level, and ARECC Level III. Early service in the Civil Air Patrol showed me the value of such training.
"My academic interests include use of radio for intelligence work -- see [Lee] "Radio Spies, Episodes in the Ether Wars," 15 Antique Wireless Association Review 7 (2002 -- available along with other radio history articles at www.californiahistoricalradio.com), and antique radio with the California Historical Radio Society (Herrold Award 1991) and the Antique Wireless Association (Houck Award for Documentation, 2003). I have taught law and economics at Golden Gate University, including the economic history of telecommunications.
"A lawyer by trade, I have enjoyed an international practice (and radio around the world), see www.slksf.com, handling "Litigation, Mediation, Appeals & Deals" (SM). I presently serve as an ARRL Volunteer Counsel and as an ARRL Government Liaison.
"The 160 meter Marconi Beacon Experiment (winter, 2006) that I proposed to the Poldhu (UK) Amateur Radio Club in 2005 is a focus of much of my current interest in radio history. See [Lee, et al.] "The Marconi Beacon Experiment of 2006-07," 21 Antique Wireless Association Review 1 (2008), and "GB3SSS - Marconi's Transatlantic Leap Revisted," (by G0KYA) in QST, Dec. 2007, p. 40."
The Agenda of my 2008 Pacificon presentation follows:
AGENDA
AND TOPICS:
1) Federal Communications Commission; Antennas;
Administrative Law
PRB-1 Pre-emption of Zoning: “Reasonable Accommodation”; California Law; Local Ordinances; Working with Local Officials; Litigation; Private Developments, CC&R Antenna Restrictions; Lobbying and Emergency Services.
2) Interference Issues; Primary and Secondary Users of Radio Frequency Spectrum; Part 15 and Broadcast over Power Lines (BPL) Update.
3) Repeater Issues; FCC Action; State Law Nuisance Actions; Interference Issues for Repeaters.
4) Representing the Radio Amateur – Know your Client; Credentialing your Client; Volunteer Counsel and Ethical Issues – Relations to Client and to ARRL; Other Private Counsel and Management Issues; Attorneys’ Fees and Costs; Written Agreements; A Suggested Modular Approach to Tasks.
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(The following professional summary Includes text from the law firm and Martindale - Hubble)
BARTHOLOMEW ("Bart") LEE, long time counsel to the law firm of Spiegel, Liao & Kagay, San Francisco, earned his undergraduate degree from St. John's College in 1968 (cum laude) and his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1971, where he was an Instructor and Teaching Fellow from 1971-73. He taught Law & Economics as an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University (San Francisco) from 1983 to 2003. He has published on a diverse range of issues from the Civil Code through antitrust to a legal pun in Chaucer. He has also recently webpublished an article about Physicians' Peer Review through the American Health Lawyers Association.
Mr. Lee has litigated (in federal court primarily) for more than thirty years. Martindale Hubble awarded him the Peer-Review rating "AV" its highest rating for ability and integrity. Many lawyers, many physicians, and many businesses and their owners have found his counsel and advocacy client focused, effective and cost effective. He has achieved many outstanding trial and appellate results, recently in 2004 in Yaqub vs. Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, (see 122 Cal. App. 4th 474, 18 Cal. Rptr. 3d 780 (2004)), a matter in which he handled the now-resolved federal proceedings, and in Bay World Trading, Ltd. vs. Nebraska Beef, Inc., (his trial of a UCC commercial dispute) appeal reported 101 Cal. App. 4th 135 (2002).
Mr. Lee is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the California Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and all federal courts in the State of California. He has appeared pro hac vice in state and federal courts and administrative agencies in New York, Illinois, Arizona and other states.
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What I can do for you:
Litigation, Mediation, Appeals and Deals. (SM)
Practicing on the leading edge of the law generates many appellate and otherwise reported cases. This practice has ranged from cases involving the CIA, organized crime, federal and state prosecutors (as defendants), hostile foreign governments, the IRS, and rather more mundane adversaries such as multinational oil companies and IBM.
My extensive litigation experience has included:
· Constitutional issues and civil rights cases, particularly zoning, property rights, discrimination, Equal Protection and Due Process issues, and First Amendment questions;
. Cases against various U.S. government agencies and special agents and attorneys, including the CIA and IRS.
· Administrative law and professional qualifications, including physicians’ peer review and discipline;
·
General
business litigation and commercial contracts;
·
RICO
matters, antitrust and racketeering (both plaintiff and defense);
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Copyright
and trade secrets cases;
· Litigation management of specialist counsel;
. Transnational matters;
· Federal claims and defenses.
Avoiding the courtroom is, however, often the better way; in this regard, I have been privileged to have been able to counsel clients in many areas including international business structures and transactions, fine arts issues, real estate transactions and development, trade secrets and intellectual property, winery operations, electronics retailing, lawyers' and physicians' affairs, museum and other non-profit managements, and domestic relations.
In the process of litigation, I have effected challenging settlements, often through intense mediation. I have in recent years chosen to emphasize mediation advocacy as well as serving as counsel to businesses and individuals regarding dispute avoidance and resolution, intellectual property management and defense, fine arts law, and international regulation. Additionally, I have worked on evolving health care industry issues such as restraint of trade matters involving the Federal Trade Commission and physician and hospital relations. I have also served as pro bono counsel to non-profit groups such as museums and to governmental and private emergency services organizations.
If you think that you, a client or friend could benefit from our experience and wide expertise,* please give me a call, send me an e-mail, or make an appointment to visit. Our hourly rates are reasonable and our goal is to use the powers of the law to help you solve the immediate problem and to help you make sure it doesn't happen again.
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* Charles Kagay in our office is a Certified Appellate Specialist, with a strong antitrust background, which is also Michael Spiegel's forte and Wayne Liao's. The partners of the firm come from the California Attorney General's office and have served as Special Deputy California Attorneys General and in the U.S. Justice Department Office of Special Counsel. Our law firm is a member of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms (see "Some Small Law Firms Find Strength in Numbers", New York Times) by which we have access to outstanding counsel around the nation and the world. Locally we participate in the Bay Area Lawyers' Network, which provides multi-specialty expertise.