Background
Blackmer, W. Scott was born on November 7, 1952.
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W. Scott Blackmer
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Brigham Young University. University of Grenoble. University of Nevada (Bachelor of Arts, 1975).
University of California at Berkeley (Juris Doctor, 1981).
Career
Worked at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, DC) specializing in Administrative Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Appellate Practice, Aviation and Aerospace, Bankruptcy, Banks and Banking, Business Law, Civil Practice, Communications and Media, Computer and Software, Constitutional Law, Consumer Law, Corporate Law, Criminal Law, Election, Campaign and Political Law, Employee Benefits, Energy, Environmental Law, Finance, General Practice, Government Contracts, Government, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Trade, International Law, Investments, Litigation, Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures, Natural Resources, Occupational Safety and Health, Products Liability, Regulatory Law, RICO, Securities, Taxation, Toxic Torts, Transportation and White Collar Crime. Admitted to the bar, 1983, District of Columbia. 1993, United Kingdom Law Society.
1994, Brussels Bar.
Editor-in-Chief, California Law Review. Clerk to Justice Marc Poché, California Court of Appeals. Judge William Schwarzer, N.D. California.
Resident European Office, Brussels (1991-1995). American Bar Association section on Law and Technology. International Bar Association.
Federal Communications Bar Association. Telecommunications, privacy/data protection and information policy working groups of the International Chamber of Commerce, United States. Council for International Business, and Coalition of Service Industries.
Editorial Board, The Computer Lawyer. Author: Note, Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, 69 California Law Review 1142 (1981).
DOV: A Regulatory Struggle with Technology, 3 Telematics 1 (1986). Brussels Takes Another Step Toward Telecommunications Liberalization, with David Bernstein and Richard Weiner, 7 The Computer Lawyer 24 (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990). Assurance of Fair Competition by Telecommunications Organizations (contributor), ICC (Paris, 1990).
Protection of Personal Data: An International Business View (contributor), ICC (Paris, 1991). Model Contract To Ensure Equivalent Data Protection in the Context of Transborder Data Flows contributor to Council of Europe Study (Strasbourg, 1992). Analysis of the Law of the Republic of Belarus on Foreign Concessions (contributor), American Bar Association Central and East European Law Institute (CEELI) (Washington, 1993).
The Protection of Personal Data in the Context of Telecommunications Services (principal author), ICC (Paris, 1993). European Environmental Policy - Legislative and Economic Framework, Biopolitics, Biopolitics International Organisation (Athens, 1995). Brussels and the Information Highway, International Corporate Law (April 1994).
An Action Plan To Hasten the "European Information Society", Global Telecoms Business (August/September 1994). Privacy in Cyberspace, International Corporate Law (October 1994). The Greening of Trade after GATT-Uruguay: Risks and Opportunities for Multinational Business, published in New Liabilities & Challenges for Industry in Europe: Environment and Business, Association Européenne des Juristes d'Entreprise (Kluwer, Antwerp, 1994).
A Business User's Perspective of the European "Information Infrastructure", address and panel discussion at the annual conference of the American Electronics Association - Europe (Brussels, November 1994). Published in EII: The Key to Europe's Global Competitiveness, AEA Europe Conference Proceedings (Brussels, 1994). The Evolution of Telecommunications Regulation in the Transition to a Competitive Marketplace, principal author, ICC (Paris, 1995).
Competition Aspects of Access by Service Providers to the Resources of Telecommunications Network Operators, with John Kallaugher, report for the Commission of the European Communities (DG IV) (Brussels, 1995). Multilevel Regulation of Telecommunications: The Experience of the United States, Canada, and Australia (principal author), report for the Commission of the European Communities (DG XIII) (Brussels, 1995). Telecoms Outsourcing: Handle with Care, with Samir Jain, Global Telecoms Business (February/March 1996).
Interesting Times Ahead: The Transition from Regulation to Competition in the Local Phone Service Marketplace, with David Gray, Global Telecoms Business (August/September 1996). Contractual Solutions for Transborder Privacy, address and panel discussion at the Privacy & American Business Third Annual National Conference, "Managing Privacy in Cyberspace and Across National Borders 1996" (Washington, 8 October 1996). Privacy Overseas: Piloting the Legal Archipelago, Sourcebook on Business and Global Data Protection 118 (Privacy & American Business, Hackensack, New Jersey, October 1996).
White Paper, Telecommunications: Key Market of the Future -- From Monopoly to Competition, Ten Recommendations for an Efficient Regulatory Authority in Germany, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering (German and English, October 1996) (contributor). Exporting Telecommunications and Information Services: Legal and Regulatory Barriers, address and panel discussion at the US Department of Commerce Information Technology and Telecommunications Training Program, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Center for Trade and Commercial Diplomacy (Monterey, California, 15 November 1996). Signing the Deal, in C. Wilmott & J. Hunter, Telecoms Cost Reduction, at 101 (Financial Times Telecoms and Media Publishing, London, 1997).
The New German Telecommunications Act: A Model for South America? with Matthias Bock, Connectworld Latin America 21 (London, January 1997). Cyberbanking and Electronic Commerce: International Product Issues, address and paper presented at the Glasser LegalWorks Conference on The Emerging Law of Cyberbanking and Electronic Commerce (Washington, 6-7 February 1997. San Francisco, 6-7 March 1997).
Privacy in the Age of Electronic Commerce, participant in symposium for government and industry privacy experts, Brookings Institution (Washington, 9 April 1997). Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering has a diverse national and international regulatory, commercial, legislative, and civil and criminal litigation practice. With offices in Washington, Baltimore, London, Brussels, and Berlin, the firm is able to meet the needs of its clients in matters involving issues of state, federal, international, or European Union law.
