An Overview of Our Experience

Our clients benefit from the unique perspective and experience the firm’s lawyers have gained from working in senior government positions at a time when much of the current telecommunications regulatory landscape took shape.

• A. Richard Metzger, Jr., has more than 25 years of experience in the field of telecommunications law, in both the private and public sectors. He has spent more than 15 years in private practice, advising clients on telecommunications regulatory and related issues. He also played a prominent role in the Federal Communication Commission’s overhaul of the nation’s telecommunications regulation and served as Chief of the FCC’s Common Carrier Bureau (which has since been renamed the Wireline Competition Bureau).
  
  
• Regina (Gina) Keeney has over 25 years of experience in the legislative, regulatory and telecommunications fields, holding a wide variety of senior policy-making positions in government and the private sector. She has served as Republican Counsel and Senior Counsel for Communications to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee. Ms. Keeney also headed the FCC’s Common Carrier Bureau during that agency’s initial implementation of the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996. In addition, she served as Chief of the FCC’s International and Wireless Bureaus.
  
  
• Charles (Buck) Logan has over 18 years of experience in the communications field, both in private practice and at the FCC, where he was Chief of the Policy and Rules Division in the Mass Media Bureau and Acting Deputy Chief of the Mass Media Bureau.

The firm’s legislative practice is led by Gregory E. Lawler, who has had extensive experience in the executive and legislative branches. He has held senior staff positions at the White House and the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and has broad experience in many areas, including health care, transportation, and telecommunications. Gina Keeney has years of experience working in the Congress and is also a key member of the legislative practice.

In addition, members of the firm have served as expert witnesses in proceedings involving complex legal and technical issues related to wireline, wireless, and satellite telecommunications.