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Fred Williams is organizing a conference on cyberwar for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, featuring guest speaker U.S. District Court Judge Frank Whitney. Judge Whitney will speak at the conference, to be held on February 3, 2012, following a seven-month deployment overseas presiding over special and general courts-martial in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to organizing the conference, Fred will also participate in the discussion.

Fred Williams has been of counsel with James, McElroy & Diehl since 2004, when he retired after 38 years with several federal agencies, including an assistant U.S. attorney in Charlotte. At JMD, he has represented and counseled persons involved in criminal and civil matters relating to electronic surveillance, computer intrusions and searches, copyright, trade secret and trademark. He is an adjunct professor in the College of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte.