Professional Background

In private practice for the past 25 years, Tom has advised and represented a wide array of clients, including wireline and wireless communications companies (Fortune 500 as well as start-up), trade associations, and end users with respect to a broad spectrum of communications legal issues.  He has also counseled and represented a variety of government entities, including three Governors, an attorney general, and a public utilities commission.  In 1995, he founded the Law Offices of Thomas K. Crowe, P.C., a firm specializing in communications and information technology legal matters.

Tom has represented clients before the FCC as well as many other federal agencies and departments, Congress, federal and state courts, state public utilities commissions and legislatures, as well as other bodies.  He has served as regulatory counsel for a national coalition of long distance resellers; an association for telecommunications agents; and, for over a decade, an association of telecommunications consultants. A frequent speaker at telecommunications conferences and seminars, Tom served as a regular legal columnist for InteleCard News magazine for approximately a decade.  He has authored over 150 professional articles which have appeared in various communications publications.

Among other things, Tom authored "The U.S. Pacific Territories and Federal Telecommunications Policies:  A Blueprint for the Future", Journal of Communications Law and Policy, Summer 1995 Edition, which launched an effort on the part of two U.S. Pacific territories to secure an area code and become integrated into the mainland U.S. rate structure.  He then successfully represented one of these U.S. territories in this landmark effort, representing it both in proceedings before the FCC and in opposing a subsequent federal court appeal by a major telephone company.

Prior to founding the firm, Tom was a partner in the communications practice group of a national law firm. Before going into private practice, he was with the legal department of ITT which, in the early 1980s, had formed one of the first competitive long distance telephone companies in the U.S.  Earlier in his career, he served as a law clerk at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• New York
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit

Prior Experience

• Partner, Hopkins & Sutter
• Of Counsel, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP
• Associate, Jones Day
• ITT Communications Services, Inc., Legal Department
• Law Clerk, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Toxic Substances

Honors and Memberships

• “AV” rated by Martindale-Hubbell (the highest rating awarded).
• "Superb" (9.9/10) rating from AVVO.
• Listed, Who’s Who in American Law.
• Appointed Special Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 1996-2002.
• PHONE+/Channel Partners Conference & Expo Advisory Board, 2010-2011.
• Member, Advisory Board of InteleCard News, 1998-2007.
• International Prepaid Communications Association, Member, Board of Directors, 2002-2003.
• Member, Advisory Board of the Native American Trade & Information Office, 2009-present.
• Federal Communications Bar Association.

Published Works

LAW REVIEWS/LEGAL JOURNALS

• The U.S. Pacific Territories and Federal Telecommunications Policies: A Blueprint for the Future, Journal of Communications Law and Policy, Summer Edition, 1995.
• Long Distance Services Theft: Who Pays?, The National Law Journal, Oct. 1992.

REGULAR LEGAL COLUMNS

• Monthly Legal Column for InteleCard News, 1998 - 2008.
• Monthly Legal Column for Computer Telephony Magazine, 1997 - 1999.
• Monthly Legal Column for Voice Processing Magazine, 1994 - 1995.

SELECTED TRADE PUBLICATIONS

• Proposed Network Neutrality Rules and Wireless Dealers, Wireless Dealer Magazine, Jan. 2010
• Renewed Focus on FCC 214 Licensing, Xchange Magazine, Jun. 2009
• The State of Telecom Regulations; The Trend Toward Greater FCC Enforcement, The Prepaid Press, Apr. 2009.
• Ensuring Compliance with FCC Privacy (CPNI) Rules, Xchange Magazine, Dec. 2008.
• Intercarrier Compensation Under Scrutiny, Phone+, Mar., 2005.
• FCC Adopts New Fax Advertising Rules, Business Communications Review, Nov., 2003.
• CLECs: The Window Remains Open, Telecommunications, May, 1999.
• The PICC: Lost Revenue for IXCs?, Phone+, Feb., 1999.
• Recovering the Controversial Costs of Universal Service, Phone+, Jun., 1998.
• How Soon Will the Bell Companies Get Into Long Distance?, Public Communications Magazine, Aug., 1996.
• Changes Ahead for Microwave Community With Major Facilities Relocation, Telecommunications, May, 1995.
• 800 Portability: End Users Beware, Voice Processing Magazine, Sep., 1993.

Education

• George Washington University National Law Center, Washington, DC, 1982, J.D.
• New York University, New York, NY, 1979, B.A., (Honors: Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa).