By <a href="http://www.pgerm.com/meetpge/pro.asp?proID=65" target="_blank"Susan B. Geiger, a partner at the law firm Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP in its Washington, D.C. office, and <a href="http://www.pgerm.com/meetpge/pro.asp?proID=77" target="_blank"Brian K. McCalmon, an associate with the firm.