International Summit for Community Wireless Networks

Jim Baller is the founder and president of the Baller Herbst Law Group in Washington, DC. Over the last fifteen years, he has been involved in most of the Nation’s leading public cable, fiber, and wireless projects and in nearly every major legislative and judicial battle against state barriers to public broadband initiatives. NATOA named him its Member of the Year for 2001 and its first Community Broadband Visionary of the Year for 2007. Washingtonian Magazine listed him as one of the top one percent of lawyers in Washington in 2007, and both the Fiber to the Home Council and Public Technologies Institute have called him "the nation's most experienced and knowledgeable attorney on public broadband matters."