Howard is a Member in the firm's Washington, D.C. office and Chairman of the Communications Section. A communications industry veteran with 30 years of experience, including several years as an adviser to key members of Congress on landmark policy issues, he represents cable, wireless, and telecommunications companies and trade associations on a wide range of issues before Congress, regulatory bodies, and the courts.
Before joining the firm, Howard served as senior counsel to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications in the U.S. House of Representatives. During his four years in that capacity, he was responsible for the development of legislation on matters ranging from domestic telephone policy and international telecommunications to cable franchising, including serving as one of the principal drafters of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984. He was also responsible for the subcommittee's oversight of Federal Communications Commission activities in the areas of telephone and cable policy.
From 1978 to 1981, Howard was a staff attorney with Public Citizen's Congress Watch, a public interest group founded by Ralph Nader. While at Congress Watch, he was responsible for telecommunications policy issues.
Howard was honored with a 2010 National Cable & Telecommunications Association Vanguard Award in the Associates & Affiliates category for his significant contributions to the cable industry. In 2012, he was named a Washington, D.C. Super Lawyer. Since 2000, he has also been named annually in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business as a leader in the Telecom, Broadcast, and Satellite field, and has been listed each year since 2006 in Best Lawyers in America. Howard has served as an adjunct professor at the National Law Center of George Washington University, where he taught a course in telecommunications law and regulation. He is the author of "The Communications Policy Process," in New Directions in Telecommunications Policy (Duke University Press, 1989).
Howard is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University (1975) and his J.D. from Harvard Law School (1978).
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