Brian’s practice is premised on merging the future of communications with past successes and best practices. While counseling new entrants who aim to challenge the status quo in modern and innovative ways, Brian concurrently advises established service providers who seek to enter new lines of business utilizing emerging technologies in addition to maintaining and modifying their more traditional offerings.

As a result, Brian’s substantive experience encompasses some of the most salient communications policy issues of the day — whether it is cybersecurity, the regulatory treatment and classification of broadband-based services, or the national security implications of foreign investments and other commercial activity.  At the same time, he is well versed in a range of traditional telecommunications and media regulatory issues that remain relevant even in an evolving marketplace.

These diverse client needs mean Brian’s practice takes various forms — from participating in rulemaking and adjudicatory proceedings before the FCC to representing clients at all levels of the federal courts and state public utility commissions to providing strategic and compliance-oriented advice.  He also speaks and writes about communications law and policy issues in various arenas.

Brian has over two decades of experience as outside counsel to clients in the communications marketplace, with about half of that coming at AmLaw 50 law firms prior to his joining WBK in 2014.  Away from the practice of law, Brian enjoys spending quality time with his wife Kari and son Markus, re-learning how to play musical instruments, and feeling both wistful and hopeful about Baltimore sports.