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Bryan N. Tramont

Areas of Practice Telecommunications Law Mass Media Law Administrative Law Education J.D. Yale Law School, 1993  B.A. (Political Science) summa cum laude, George Washington University, 1989 Bar Admissions Missouri, 1993 District of Columbia, 1994

Bryan Tramont joined Wilkinson Barker Knauer after serving as Chief of Staff of the Federal Communications Commission under former Chairman Michael Powell. As FCC Chief of Staff, Mr. Tramont directed the agency’s staff in implementing FCC policies overseeing all sectors of the communications industry; including wireline, broadcast, wireless and satellite. Before being elevated by Chairman Powell to the Chief of Staff post, Mr. Tramont was the Chairman’s Senior Legal Advisor, advising him generally on strategic issues and specifically on wireless, international, technology, and consumer issues. Mr. Tramont also served as Senior Legal Advisor to Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy and, before that, to Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth. Before joining the FCC in 1999, Mr. Tramont practiced communications law at Wiley Rein and Fielding in Washington, DC. He also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Duane Benton on the Supreme Court for his home state of Missouri.

Mr. Tramont is active in the communications bar. He serves as Assistant Treasurer on the Executive Committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association and was awarded the organization’s Distinguished Service Award. The Secretary of Commerce recently appointed Mr. Tramont to the Spectrum Management Advisory Committee to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on which he serves as Co-Chairman. Mr. Tramont also serves on the Governing Committee of the ABA Forum on Communications Law. He is currently an adjunct law professor at The Catholic University of America as a part of the Communications Law Institute, is a senior adjunct fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and serves as the Syracuse University Law School's Practitioner in Residence. Mr. Tramont is the author of numerous articles on communications policy and is a frequent speaker and lecturer at academic and industry events. He is also a member of the Federalist Society. Mr. Tramont was recently named by Washingtonian magazine as one of the Top Communications Lawyers in the city for 2007.

Bryan Tramont graduated summa cum laude from The George Washington University with a degree in political science.  He earned his law degree from Yale Law School, where he served as editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review.

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