April 30, 2008 - Radio Resource Media Group News Brief
Law Firm Files 125 Rebanding Waiver Requests

The Law Firm of Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker filed 125 waiver requests on behalf of 800 MHz licensees to enable the licensees to complete their rebanding effort after the June 26 deadline, pursuant to negotiations with Sprint Nextel.

Two sets of waiver requests were filed:  interim waivers for licensees still negotiating frequency reconfiguration agreements (FRA's) with Sprint Nextel and final waivers for licensees with executed FRA's that require additional time to complete the physical reconfiguration work.  The breakdown of waiver requests is:  Wave 1:  28, Wave 2:  33, Wave 3:  58 and Wave 4:  6.

About 50 of the firm's clients didn't file waiver requests because they have completed their rebanding efforts or because they expect to have their projects completed by June 26.  In addition, waiver requests were not filed for Wave 4 border licensees, pursuant to direction from the FCC.

Shulman Rogers represents more than 200 licensees across the country in their rebanding efforts.

April 28, 2008 - Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker Announces Filing of Rebanding Deadline Waivers
Click here to read full announcement. 

December 5, 2007 - Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A. is pleased to announce that Morton A. Faller, Co-Chairman of the Firm's Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group and Jay M. Eisenberg, Chairman of Firm's Estates and Trusts Department, have been named to Washingtonian's 2007 Top Lawyers list. Mr. Faller was recognized in the area of bankruptcy law, Mr. Eisenberg in the area of estates and probate. Washingtonian's annual listing recognizes the top 1 percent of attorneys in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area for each practice area.

November 6 ,2007 - Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A. is pleased to announce that Ira E. Hoffman has joined the firm to lead its Government Contracts Practice Group. Mr. Hoffman's practice focuses on the areas of government contracts, national security law, international trade law, international procurement, complex civil and administrative litigation, and alternative dispute resolution. Mr. Hoffman, who has been practicing law for more than 20 years, has served as a Court Law Clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; as Counsel to the Vice Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission; and as Counsel to the Israeli Ministry of Defense Mission to the United States. He also practiced with the nationally prominent large law firms Fried, Frank and Howry, LLP and more recently with the government contracts "boutique" firms Grayson, Kubli and Hoffman and Hoffman & Associates. Mr. Hoffman is also a part-time Adjunct Professor of Law at the George Mason University School of Law, where he has taught European Union Law and International Trade Law.

Mr. Hoffman received his Juris Doctor degree (cum laude) in 1983 from the University of Miami School of Law, an M.Sc (Econ) from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1975 and a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1973. Before studying law, Mr. Hoffman taught International Relations at the LSE, was a Research Fellow at Tel Aviv University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and was the Economics Research Editor of the Africa Contemporary Record.

July 19, 2007 - Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A. is proud to announce that shareholder Stephen A. Metz has been elected to a one-year term as Chair of the Greenbelt Chapter of the Bankruptcy Bar Association for the District of Maryland (BBA).

July 6, 2007 - Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A. is pleased to announce that Anne Marie Vassallo has been appointed to the Montgomery County Charter Review Commission. The Charter Review Commission is appointed every 4 years to review the County Charter and to recommend changes to this document which provides the governance structure for Montgomery County.

June 20, 2007 - Shulman, Rogers, Gandal Pordy & Ecker, P.A. is pleased to announce that Jay M. Eisenberg, Chairman of the Firm's Estates and Trusts Department, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Montgomery Hospice.  Montgomery Hospice, started in 1981, is the first independent homecare/hospice organization in Maryland.

June 12, 2007 - Rockville Innovation Center formally opens.

March 19, 2007 - Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A. is pleased to announce that Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett has appointed Howard J. Ross to serve on the Montgomery County Executive’s Affordable Housing Task Force.  The task force’s mission is to advise the County Executive on strategies to increase the supply and availability of affordable housing in Montgomery County.

For the past 7 years, Mr. Ross has served as counsel to an affordable housing developer based in the Washington, DC area.