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Thomas K. Crowe, Principal
Professional Background
In private practice for the past
22 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 presently serves as
regulatory counsel for a national coalition of long distance resellers and formerly served, for over a decade, as regulatory
counsel to an association of telecommunications consultants. Tom serves as a regular legal columnist for InteleCard News magazine
and is a frequent speaker at telecommunications conferences and seminars. 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 establishing his own
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
- U.S. District Court of the
District of Columbia
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).
- Listed, Who’s
Who in American Law.
- Appointed Special
Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 1996-2002.
- Member, Advisory
Board of InteleCard News, 1998-present.
- International Prepaid
Communications Association, Former Member, Board of Directors.
- 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 - present.
Monthly Legal Column for Computer
Telephony Magazine, 1997 - 1999.
Monthly Legal Column for Voice Processing Magazine, 1994 - 1995.
SELECTED TRADE PUBLICATIONS
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).
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