CURRICULUM VITAE

Steve Bickerstaff

(January, 2007)

Personal

Born:	April 15, 1946 in Sweetwater, Texas
Education:	BA - University of Texas at Austin (History) JD - University of Texas School of Law
Family:	Married to Charlotte Carter, with two married daughters (Betty Beale Drummond and Deanna Lee Nespor) and three granddaughters (Jesse, Maggie and Abby).

Professional History

2000 –2007
Visiting and Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law (2000-2007) teaching courses on constitutional law, voting rights, election law, campaign finance law, local government law and telecommunications law and policy.

Chairman of the Mergers and Acquisitions and Internal Operations Committees of the Board of Directors of Corporate Systems, Inc. (CSI) (2003-2004). The corporation was sold in 2004 to Marsh USA.

Professor of Law, Executive Masters of European and International Business Law Programme, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (2000-2005) lecturing on international telecommunications law and policy.

Carter Center election procedures advisory team for Peoples Republic of China (2003-2005).

Rockefeller Foundation Scholar with residency at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy (2002).

Fulbright Foundation Scholar with a grant for teaching and lecturing in Germany (2000).

Special Consultant to the Attorney General of Texas and the Texas Legislative Redistricting Board on reapportionment and voting rights matters (2000-2001).

Visiting Professor, University of Goettingen, Germany lecturing on the law and policy of global communications for classes consisting primarily of students in the post-graduate law program (2000).

1969-1999
Bickerstaff, Heath and Smiley (1980–1998). Mr. Bickerstaff founded the firm in 1980. The firm [now Bickerstaff, Heath, Pollan and Caroom] grew to 50 attorneys while he was at the firm. It remains one of the premier election law and telecommunications law firms in the country. More information about the firm is available at www.bickerstaff.com . The law firm also has been a leading law firm nationwide in achieving diversity among its attorneys. For 20 years (1981-2000), approximately 50% of the attorneys were women and 20% were racial or ethnic minorities. Bickerstaff withdrew from the firm in 1998 in conjunction with his decision to teach, travel and focus on CSI matters as a member of the CSI board. He formally retired from the law firm in 2003.

Adjunct Professor, University of Texas School of Law (1992 – 1997) teaching a seminar on public policy litigation [e.g. voting rights, public school finance, institutional litigation].

Associated Member, Faculty of the Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute at the University of Texas (1999- 2004).

Associate Attorney, Oppenheimer, Rosenberg, Kelleher and Wheatley (1979–1980) working primarily on contested administrative and litigation matters for Southwest Airlines.

Assistant Attorney General of Texas (1976–1979). Initially a Special Assistant to the Attorney General and later Chief of the State and County Affairs Division of the Office of Attorney General.

Parliamentarian for the Texas Senate and for the Texas Senate Sitting as a Court of Impeachment (1974–1976).

Legal Counsel for the Texas Constitutional Revision Commission and the Texas Constitutional Convention (1973–1974) and Director of the Legislative Council Office of Constitutional Research (1974–1975).

United States Air Force (1968–1972 [active duty 1971–1972]).

Associate Editor, Texas Law Review (1969–1970).

Law Practice

Over the past 30 years Mr. Bickerstaff has specialized primarily in the representation of clients in two distinct sectors – telecommunications regulation and election or voting rights law.

Election and Voting Rights Law. During the past four decades he has counseled state and local governments in regard to redistricting and voting rights matters and has represented these governments in state and federal court and before the United States Department of Justice. Among the over 20 redistricting cases in which he was counsel of record are Seamon v. Upham, United States v. City of Houston, Upham v. White, Clements v. Valles, McNeil v. City of Springfield, Illinois, Terrazas v. Clements, Campos v. City of Houston, Overton v. City of Austin, Chen v. City of Houston, and Graves v. Barnes. Also during that time, he represented individual candidates on state and federal campaign finance issues and in election recount and contest proceedings, including the only three statewide recounts in Texas history.

Telecommunications. Mr. Bickerstaff has represented many different communications companies before the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Congress, the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the Texas Legislature and state regulatory commissions in approximately fifteen states. He also has frequently appeared in federal or state court on behalf of such companies and has counseled such companies on the legal aspects of business, competition, and policy related matters.

A list of the major court and administrative proceedings in which Mr. Bickerstaff served as legal counsel is available by link to this website.

Publications

Law Journal Articles: Post-Election Legal Strategy in Florida: The Anatomy of Defeat and Victory, 34 LOYOLA CHICAGO LAW JOURNAL 149 (Fall 2002);

Counts, Recounts and Election Contests: The Lessons of the Presidential Election in Florida, 29 FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 425 (Winter 2002);

Effects of the Voting Rights Act on Reapportionment and Hispanic Voting Strength in Texas, 6 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HISPANIC JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY 99 (Summer 2001);

Shackles on the Giant: How the Federal Government Created Microsoft, Personal Computers and the Internet, 78 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 1 (November, 1999);

Risks for the Internet: The Era of Network Computing, 6 MULTIMEDIA und RECHT 321 (June 2000);

The Significance of the Microsoft Antitrust Proceeding to Global Communications, 3/2000 ZEITSCHRIFT DER DEUTSCH-AMERIKANISCHEN JURISTEN-VEREINIGUNG 78 (October 2000);

Remarks on the Decision in AT&T v. City of Portland: Competitor Access to Broadband Interactive Cable Networks, 4/2000 COMPUTER und RECHT INTERNATIONAL 114 (November 2000);

Recent Developments in United States Telecommunications and Internet Law, MULTIMEDIA und RECHT (February 2001);

Preserving the Opportunity for Education: Texas' Alternative Education Programs for Disruptive Youth, 8 EDUCATION & LAW JOURNAL 359 (1998) (The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada) (This is a reprint of the article published in 1997 by the University of South Carolina [see below];

Voting Rights Challenges to School Boards in Texas: What's Next?, 6 BAYLOR LAW REVIEW 1017 (1997);

Preserving the Opportunity for Education: Texas' Alternative Education Programs for Disruptive Youth, 26 JOURNAL OF LAW AND EDUCATION 1 (1997) (University of South Carolina);

Reapportionment by State Legislatures: A Guide for the 1980's, 34 SOUTHWESTERN LAW JOURNAL 607 (1980); and

The Proposed Revision of the Texas Constitution, 29 SOUTHWESTERN LAW JOURNAL 477 (1975).

Other Articles:

The Unfortunate Legacy of Congressman Tom DeLay, published as an op-ed under slightly different titles in six Texas newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, and Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (Nov, 2006);

A Texas Tragedy: How Texas Lost the Opportunity for Cleaner Air, published as an op-ed article under slightly different titles in the Dallas Morning News and Austin American-Statesman newspapers (2002);

Rolling Redistricting, published as an op-ed under slightly different titles in the Dallas Morning News and Austin American-Statesman newspapers (March 1, 2006);

The Crisis in the Overcrowding of County Jails and Why the State of Texas is Responsible, published as an op-ed article under slightly different titles in the Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News and Austin American-Statesman newspapers (1993);

A Dual System of Regulation, THE TEXAS TELECOMMUNICATIONS REVIEW 76 (1998) (The Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute, The University of Texas);

State Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment in Texas: A Historical Perspective, XXXVII PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMENT 1 (No. 2, Winter 1991) (Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs);

State Regulation of Shared Telecommunications Services, TELEMATICS (March 1985).

Mr. Bickerstaff has published many additional minor articles on public policy issues in telecommunications trade journals, state bar journals, local government association journals, and op-ed sections of major Texas newspapers.

Books:

LINES IN THE SAND (Published by the University of Texas Press in 2007). It is the saga of the 2003 congressional redistricting in Texas, along with the 2002 elections that paved the way for the redistricting and the civil and criminal litigation that followed;

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: AN ANNOTATED AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (1976) (two volumes) (one of eight co-authors) (Published by the Texas Legislative Council Press);

REAPPORTIONMENT BY STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: A GUIDE FOR THE 1980’S (1980) (Published by the Texas Legislative Council); and

THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENTARIAN IN THE TEXAS SENATE (1975) (Privately published)

Guest Lectures:

2000-2004

Invited Lecturer at various conferences and symposia in the United States and Europe, including: The Loyola of Chicago School of Law symposium on The Florida Presidential Election: The View from a Year Later (February, 2002); The St. Gallen MBL Programme, Brugge, Belgium (July 2002 and 2003) as a lecturer on U.S. Antitrust Law: Application To Information Technology; The University of Vienna, Austria (January 18, 2001) as a lecturer on Emerging Issues of International Telecommunications; The Florida State College of Law symposium on “The Law of the Presidential Elections: Issues in the Wake of Florida 2000” in Tallahassee, Florida (March 23, 2001) as a commentator on State Election Law and Presidential Selection; The University of Texas School of Law's Third Annual Telecommunications Law Conference in Dallas, Texas (March 9, 2001) as a lecturer on The Effect of U.S. and European Antitrust Law on Developing Global Communications; The University of Texas Hispanic Law Journal symposium on "Drawing Lines in the Sand: The Texas Latino Community 2001" in Austin, Texas (April 13, 2001) as a lecturer on Effects of the Federal Voting Rights Act on Hispanic Voting Strength in Texas; The University of Texas Conference for Texas County and District Clerks (April 25, 2001) as a lecturer on Counts, Recounts and Election Contests: The Lessons of the Presidential Election in Florida; The Texas Secretary of State’s 19th Annual Seminar for Election Officials (July 30, 2001) as a lecturer on Reapportionment in 2001; The Texas Secretary of State’s Twelfth Annual Election Law Seminar (December 2000); The Bob Lanier Public Policy Conference on Redrawing America’s Political Boundaries After the 2000 Elections and Census (December, 2000) Presentation on Redistricting Texas after the 2000 Census; The University of Oxford, U.K. Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (2000); University of Augsburg, Germany, International Symposium for the Advanced Study of Law (2000); University of Jena, Germany, Jena Chapter of Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen-Vereinigung (2000); European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, Staff of the Competition Directorate of the European Commission (2000); Kaprun, Austria, Center for International Legal Studies, International Conference on Telecommunications (2000); Koln, Germany, Koln Chapter of Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen-Vereinigung (2000); and Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurt Chapter of Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen-Vereinigung (2000).

As the William P. Hobby Distinguished Lecturer, he presented a talk about Forces of Change: Reappraising the Ideals and Institutions of American Democracy (October 2000).

1980-2000

Guest lecturer at numerous government, national and state telecommunications association, bar association and other organization conferences.

Community and Corporate Involvement

Member, Board of Directors (Secretary) Marfa Public Radio Corporation
Member, Board of Directors of Trustees for Alaska (a nonprofit organization providing legal services for environmental organizations in Alaska)
Member, National Council of the National Parks Conservation Association
Member, Advisory Council of the William P. Hobby Center for Public Service
Member, Board of Visitors for the University of Texas McDonald Observatory
Member, Littlefield Society of the University of Texas
Member, Chancellor's Council of the University of Texas
Member, Dean's Roundtable of the University of Texas School of Law
Member, Board of Trustees for Corporate Systems, Inc. (1998-2004) and chairman of the board’s mergers and acquisitions committee (2001-2004). (The corporation was sold to Marsh USA in 2004)