Co-Chair-Communications, Media, and IT Department

Representative Experience
Dan Waggoner, co-chair of the firm’s Communications, Media and Information Technology department leads DWT’s efforts to serve these converging industries and focuses on communications, media and intellectual property issues for technology and content providers and communications companies. He represents new and traditional media companies and content providers in both transactions and specialized litigation matters under the Communications Act and the First Amendment. He also negotiates technology contracts and analyzes regulatory issues for technology companies and wireless, VoIP and other providers.

Representative Clients
Amazon.com
Belo Corp.
Clearwire
Microsoft
T-Mobile
Time Warner-AOL companies, including New Line Cinema, HBO and Turner

News and Publications
"Content Issues for Wireless Communications Providers," Media Law Resource Center, May 2008

"A Post-Borat Reprieve on Reality-Based Programming," Communications Lawyer, Fall 2007

Presentations
Speaker, "eHavioral, Peer-to-Peer and New Media Marketing," Law Seminars International, Seattle, Wash., June 2008

Speaker, "Legal Frontiers in Digital Media," Media Law Resource Center (MLRC), Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., May 2008

Co-chair, "Seminar on Defamation and Privacy Defense," National Association of Broadcasters, American Newspaper Publishers Association, MLRC, 2008

Co-chair, "Wireless Telecommunications Conference," Law Seminars International, Seattle, Wash., Nov. 2007

Memberships and Activities
Advisory Board, Wireless Influencers 2008 Conference, sponsored by Rutberg & Co., Oct. 2008

Co-chair, National Association of Broadcasters and American Newspaper Publishers Association planning committee for the NAB, NAA, MLRC Biannual Seminar

Past chair, American Bar Association's Forum on Communications Law

Past co-chair, Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Federal Communications Bar Assoc.

Washington State and District of Columbia Bar Associations

Board of Directors, ArtsFund

Board of Directors, American Heart Association, Northwest Region

Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in First Amendment Law by Woodward/White, since 1991; also named in Communications Law, 2008

Selected to "Super Lawyers," Washington Law & Politics, 1999-2006

Education
J.D., Yale University School of Law, 1979

B.A., summa cum laude, Tufts University, 1974