William R. Malone
Mr. Malone represents clients engaged in common carrier communications (domestic and foreign), AM-FM-TV broadcasting, and the manufacture and operation of licensed and unlicensed radio frequency devices. Mr. Malone represents local governments in trial and appellate courts throughout the country in disputes over local rights-of-way franchises and cell tower zoning. He advises foreign governments and international financial institutions on liberalization and privatization of telecommunications sectors. He advises on and litigates questions involving the constitutionality and application of federal and state communications statutes and state taxes, and he assists clients in solving problems through the legislative process. Before entering private practice, Mr. Malone was Washington Vice President and an associate general counsel of GTE. Drawing on his detailed familiarity with the legislative history of the Communications Act, he has briefed appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court and seven U.S. Courts of Appeals. He has appeared in or supervised cases before over thirty state public utilities commissions. He has drafted telecommunications franchising ordinances for local governments throughout the country, based on detailed historical analyses of the applicable federal laws and state constitutions and laws. He also represented a coalition of national educational groups in connection with the development of the school and library universal service discount program established by the 1996 Act. Mr. Malone authored National Treatment in International Transactions and Investment, a chapter of the 1991 edition of the Handbook on International Communications, published by the Federal Communications Bar Association and the chapter on Foreign Ownership of Domestic Radio Facilities in the forthcoming edition of the FCBA Handbook. He is admitted to practice in Indiana, District of Columbia, and Connecticut. He received his law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1962, his A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College in 1958, and attended M.I.T. as a special student in electrical engineering in 1957.
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