Gregg Skall

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Gregg Skall is a veteran telecom lawyer who advises broadcasters and telecommunications companies in their FCC regulatory matters and their business dealings. Gregg has also represented real estate developers in the acquisition of competitive broadband and telecommunications services for new residential and commercial developments. He also works with telecommunications equipment manufacturers to obtain FCC approvals and to assure regulatory compliance. Gregg assists companies in need of appropriate spectrum support for emerging telecommunications products and has been recognized by the National Journal as a leading radio spectrum lobbyist in Washington.

Gregg also has orchestrated scores of transactions involving FCC regulated companies with assets worth many millions of dollars. He has organized coalitions to obtain major policy changes before the FCC and supervised the formation of an international joint venture for a nationwide data network.

Gregg has served on the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on International Communications & Information Policy, and on the Pike and Fischer Communications Regulation Advisory Board from its formation until its merger with Bloomberg BNA. He is a past chair of the Federal Bar Association Regulated Industries Committee and past co-chair of the Federal Communications Bar Association, Professional Responsibility Committee.

Gregg is a recognized writer and frequent speaker on topics of FCC administrative process, media and telecommunications regulation, and has taught Telecommunications Law and Policy at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is communications counsel several state broadcaster associations and a frequent column contributor to industry newsletters.

In government, Gregg served as Acting General Counsel in the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy, Chief Counsel of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and attorney advisor at the Federal Communications Commission.

Gregg has been listed for multiple years in the Washington Post editions of Legal Leaders of Washington, in Top Rated Lawyers of Washington DC, in Super Lawyers for Washington D.C., in a number of editions of Who’s Who, and has been rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbel, a peer rating for the highest level of professional excellence and ethical standards.

Gregg is a graduate of Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati School of Law where he studied under Dean Roscoe Barrow, primary author of the seminal study Network Broadcasting, commissioned by the U.S. Senate in the late 1950s and known as the Barrow Report.

Education

University of Cincinnati College of Law J.D. 1969

Ohio State University B.S. 1966

Prior Experience

Past Team Leader, Communications Legal Team, Womble Bond Dickinson, LLP, Washington, D.C.

Managing Partner, Pepper & Corazzini, LLP, Washington, D.C.

Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Acting General Counsel, Office of Telecommunications Policy, Executive Office of the President.

Teaching Experience
Professorial Lecturer, Telecommunications Law, George Washington University Graduate School, 1978-1983.

Fun Fact

Gregg’s son started the first brewery in DC in over 50 years. It remains a DC favorite and leader in the mid-Atlantic region.

Publications

RFID Frequency Issues, Chapter 3, RFIDs, Near-Field Communications and Mobile Payments, A Guide for Lawyers, Cyberspace Law Committee, RFID Task Force, American Bar Association (2013)
Co-Author, What Every Builder and Developer Need to Know About Telecommunications, Land Development, Winter 2002.
Co-Author, The Broadcasters Survival Guide, A Handbook of FCC Rules and Regulations for Radio and TV Stations, Scripps Howard Books (An Imprint of Pharos Books), 1988.
"The Regulation of Electronic Publishing," Federal Communications Law Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3, Summer 1981.
"Direct International and Domestic Television Broadcasting by Satellite-A Myth or Potential Reality," Proceedings of the Seventh Communications Satellite Systems Conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, April 1978.
"Legal Barriers to Electronic Mail," Proceedings of the International Telecommunications Exposition, 1977
Vol. 3, Horizon House International, 1977
"Regulation and Your Industry," Telco-Digest, the Magazine for Independent Telcos, August/September 1976.
"Competition in Telecommunications--The Telephone Industry Bill," Hearing on Competition in the Telecommunications Industry before the Subcommittee on Communications of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 94th Cong, 2d Sess., ser 94-129 at 1040 (1976).
"Summary of Current Law Relating to Cable Television Systems," XLVI, Ohio Bar 1031 (1973).

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Bar Associations

American Bar Association
The District of Columbia Bar Association
Federal Bar Association, Past Chairman, Telecommunications Committee, Regulated Industries Committee
Federal Communications Bar Association, Past Chairman, Member Professional Responsibility Committee, since 1991