Raymond L. Gifford
Partner

Areas of Practice Telecommunications Law Smart Grid Utility Regulation and Litigation Administrative Law Education J.D. University of Chicago, 1992 B.A, Great Books, St. John’s College Annapolis, MD 1989 Bar Admissions Colorado United States District Court for Colorado U.S. District Court for Nebraska U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Raymond L. Gifford counsels communications, electric and gas utilities and information technology companies on state and federal aspects of regulation, administrative law, and competition policy. He is an expert in public utilities law as it relates to telecommunications and energy matters. He litigates on behalf of clients in state and federal courts, and serves as an expert witness on utility regulation in federal and state courts, and at state utility commissions. In addition, Mr. Gifford’s law and policy work focuses on antitrust, competition policy and intellectual property law.

Before returning to private law practice, Mr. Gifford served as President of The Progress & Freedom Foundation, a non-profit think-tank that studies the digital revolution as it relates to regulation of network industries. Before that, he was Chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission serving as the chief regulator in the state of Colorado of the telecommunications, electricity, natural gas and transportation industries. Mr. Gifford began his regulatory career as First Assistant Attorney General for Regulatory Law in the Colorado Attorney General’s office. Immediately after graduating from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Richard P. Matsch of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Mr. Gifford has authored a number of articles on smart grid, broadband and communications law.

Membership, Affiliation, and Recognition

• Senior Adjunct Fellow and Chairman, Advisory Board, University of Colorado’s Silicon Flatirons Program for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship
• Director, Silicon Flatiron’s Institute for Regulatory Law and Economics Annual Seminar
• Chairman, Federalist Society’s Telecommunications Practice Group
• Past Lecturer, University of Colorado Law School
• Elected Member, American Law Institute

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