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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Our new digital economy, Washington Times, Jan. 13, 2008  
Google the Destroyer, TCSDaily, Jan. 07, 2008  

The World Is Round: How To Think About Foreign Investment in the US, TCSDaily, Nov. 21, 2007

A Chill Wind For Innovation: European Court’s Ruling Imperils High-Tech Economy, Washington Legal Foundation, Oct. 19, 2007
 
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About Convergence Law Institute

The Convergence Law Institute LLC (CLI) is a consulting firm that helps its clients develop and present strategies and arguments on current public policy issues. CLI's work is based on the principles that the institutions of property rights and markets are essential to continued economic and technological development, in the U.S. and world-wide. We seek clients whose business strategies embrace these views. We have been described as "a private think tank."

The name "Convergence Law" comes from the reality that services that were once separate - voice, video, data, even the electric grid - are converging into streams of bits on public and private internet-protocol based platforms. As a result, familiar legal and policy categories that developed under earlier technologies are losing their coherence, with dramatic effect on the rules governing competition, intellectual property, telecommunications, media, and financial services. Both public and private organizations must rethink policies, rules, and institutional mechanisms.

CLI is affiliated with the Washington, DC office of the law firm of Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert, LLP, which is based in Denver.

 

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RAY L. GIFFORD, President of CLI.

JAMES V. DeLONG, Vice President & Senior Analyst.

CATHY W. TRIPODI, Director of Policy & Government Affairs.

ADAM PETERS, Senior Analyst.

SOLVEIG SINGLETON, Adjunct.

Key People at Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert LLP

WILLIE SHEPHERD, Partner

LEE REICHERT, Partner

JAY KAMLET, Partner

 

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