FFB Week 52 – A year in Review – Washington Recap

With 2023 just about behind us, we will catch up on the year’s major policy, regulatory, and legal events affecting the deployment and affordability of all-fiber networks, and then we look forward to key events for 2024.

Guest Presenter: Thomas Cohen, Legal Counsel, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Thomas Cohen is a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on matters involving communications, including telecommunications, wireless and media, the Internet, privacy and government relations.

Tom has more than 30 years of experience in the communications/telecommunications industry sector, first as a government policy maker, serving for over a decade as assistant general counsel for legislation at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and as senior counsel for the Senate Commerce Committee. He then was a founder and principal in firms assessing and developing communications/telecommunications properties and advising businesses. At Kelley Drye, Tom assists clients with a variety of aspects of communications law, including federal and state administrative and legislative advocacy, business-related legal matters and litigation.