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By leveraging our breadth of legal experience and combined resources, ZAG/S&W focuses on the practice areas most critical to our business clients' success. Our practice groups include:
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The communications industry continues to be a major area of innovation and growthand a challenging and exciting business environment. Traditional providers are moving into new areas, as new market entrants work to anticipate competitive trends. ZAG/S&W's lawyers work with telecommunications clients of all sizes and types as they pursue new markets, technologies and services and aim to fulfill the national and global appetite for ever faster and more efficient voice, data and video communications. Our telecommunications practice group is comprised of industry veterans who have been advising leaders in the field regarding the regulatory and business implications of the growth opportunities created by the federal Telecommunications Act since its inception in 1996. The group's emphasis is on providing targeted, cost-effective and results-oriented advocacy for clients. The telecommunications attorneys and affiliated consultant resident in our Washington, D.C., office represent clients including triple-play broadband, local exchange carrier, cable, VoIP, wholesale, retail and fiber-optic infrastructure companies before Congress, the FCC, FTC, NTIA, and DOJ, before state legislatures and public utility commissions, at the local level, and in litigation. ZAG/S&W's corporate, finance, tax, intellectual property, environmental and real estate lawyers work in tandem with the telecommunications group to assist our telecommunications clients, and clients that are consumers of telecommunications services or vendors to the industry, to establish their partner relationships, structure their service contracts, protect their valuable IP, raise funding for R&D and growth, navigate acquisitions, restructuring and consolidations, and meet their obligations to shareholders and customers.
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