NEWS January 5, 1995  
     
DONNA N. LAMPERT DEPARTING FCC TO JOIN MINTZ, LEVIN

     Donna N. Lampert is departing the FCC to join the law firm
of Mintz, Levin, Cohn,
Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., as a partner, effective February
1, 1995.

     Lampert had been serving as Special Counsel for Legislation
and Policy for the FCC's
Common Carrier Bureau.  In that capacity, she provided legal,
technical, and substantive
expertise on telecommunications  issues in connection with
legislative and policy matters and
also served as the Bureau's media spokesperson.  Previously,
Lampert was on the Chairman's
Task Force on Legislation and acted as a Senior Policy Attorney
in the Policy and Program
Planning Division of the Common Carrier Bureau.  Among the major
issues she has worked
on at the Commission are cable-telco convergence, video dialtone,
access charge reform,
telecommunications competition, legislative reform, universal
service, and regulatory
forbearance.

     "Anyone who works with the Common Carrier Bureau, from
within or outside the
Commission, understands how valuable Donna has been to the
agency," said Bureau Chief
Kathleen Wallman.  "She will be sorely missed but we wish her
well in this new role." 

     Lampert is also affiliated with Duke University as an
adjunct professor and teaches a
seminar on "Telecommunications Policy and Regulation" at Duke's
Terry Sanford Institute for
Public Policy.    

     Prior to joining the Commission, Lampert was a
Communications Fellow with the
Annenberg Washington Program and a Communications Policy Fellow
with the Benton
Foundation as well as Counsel to Action for Children's
Television.  From 1982 to 1989, she
worked with former NTIA Administrator and FCC General Counsel
Henry Geller as Assistant
Director of the Washington Center for Public Policy Research, a
communications policy
research and advocacy center.  In that role, she participated in
a wide variety of
communications policy matters including mass media, cable
television, common carrier, and
international issues on behalf of diverse public interest groups
and engaged in communications
policymaking activities through the courts, administrative
agencies and Congress.  

     Lampert is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law and Bard
College. 

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