Matthew Brill

Practice Areas

Matthew Brill, Global Chair of the Connectivity, Privacy & Information Practice, a member of the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice, and a former FCC senior official, represents communications industry leaders in their most complex litigation, regulatory, and transactional matters.

A nationally recognized communications lawyer, Mr. Brill draws on his sophisticated understanding of how rapidly evolving regulations shape the industry to advise service providers, investors, lenders, and other clients on matters involving:

• Broadband regulation, including net neutrality and digital discrimination issues

• Telecommunications competition and universal service

• Wireless services

• National security and foreign ownership

• First Amendment and false advertising issues

• CDA Section 230 and online content regulation

He represents clients in high-stakes, precedent-setting industry proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), trial and appellate courts, and state public utility commissions and attorneys general.

Mr. Brill served as the Senior Legal Advisor and Chief of Staff to FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy, where he developed national policies governing broadband Internet access, voice-over-IP (VoIP) services, local telephone competition, universal service subsidies, intercarrier compensation arrangements, and spectrum allocation.

He served as a law clerk to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

Mr. Brill is an active member of the Federal Communications Bar Association and has chaired its Common Carrier Practice Committee.

He maintains an active appellate pro bono practice, including First Amendment litigation.