Gregg P. Skall

Gregg P. Skall

Washington, DC

Profile

Mr. Skall actively represents telecommunications companies in domestic and international telecommunications enterprises in their regulatory matters and business dealings. He represents real estate developers in the acquisition of competitive broadband local exchange (CLEC) telecommunications services for new residential and commercial developments. He also works with telecommunications equipment manufacturers to obtain FCC approvals and to assure regulatory compliance. He assists companies in need of appropriate spectrum support for emerging telecommunications products and has been recognized by the National Journal as one of the leading radio spectrum lobbyists in Washington.

Mr. Skall regularly represents broadcasting stations in their regulatory dealings with the Federal Communications Commission in their commercial business dealings. Mr. Skall has orchestrated scores of broadcast property transactions involving assets worth millions of dollars. He has supervised the formation of an international joint venture for a nationwide data network and conceived and directed the successful campaign of the Daytime Broadcaster’s Association to expand hours of operation. He organized the coalition of radio broadcasters to obtain major policy changes before the FCC concerning the main studio rule and has represented FM subcarrier users for non-broadcast applications such as paging, since the industry began with Commission rule changes more than a decade ago. He frequently represents parties before the Commission and the Congress to obtain desired policy objectives.

Mr. Skall has served on the Pike and Fischer Communications Regulation Advisory Board since its formation, the leading communications law legal research library in Washington, D.C. He is a recognized writer and frequent speaker on topics of FCC administrative process, mass media, and telecommunications regulation, and has taught Telecommunications Law and Policy at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is communications counsel to the California, Minnesota, Missouri and Nevada state broadcasters associations and writes columns for several state broadcasting association newsletters.

Prior to private practice, Mr. Skall served as the Chief Counsel for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and Acting General Counsel to the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy in the Ford and Carter administrations. While in those positions he had responsibility for legal formulation and analysis of the agency programs and policies for telecommunications in the commercial and government sectors. Earlier in his career, he served as Senior Attorney in the Office of Opinions and Review of the Federal Communications Commission.

Professional Activities

Bar Associations: American Bar Association, The District of Columbia Bar Association; Federal Bar Association, Chairman, Telecommunications Committee, 1982, Chairman, Regulated Industries Committee, 1979-1981; Federal Communications Bar Association, Member Professional Responsibility Committee, since 1991.

Admitted to the bar 1969, Ohio; 1971, District of Columbia; 1977, U.S. Supreme Court.

Education

B.A., 1966, Ohio State University; J.D., 1969, University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Prior Legal Experience

Managing Partner, Pepper & Corazzini, LLP, Washington, D.C., 1981-2002; Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1978-1981; Acting General Counsel, Office of Telecommunications Policy, Executive Office of the President, 1977-1978.

Publications

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).

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

Honors & Awards

• 2003 Corporate Leadership Award from the Missouri Broadcasters Association
• 2003 Distinguished Service Award -- Inducted into the Museum of Broadcasting Hall of Fame
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• 2004 Friend of Missouri Broadcasters Award, by the Missouri Broadcasters Association