Mark Del Bianco

mdelbianco@wstelecomlaw.com

Born, Washington, District of Columbia, 1956. Member of the bars of Maryland (1985) and the District of Columbia (1980), the United States District Courts for those jurisdictions, the United States Court of International Trade, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Tenth, Eleventh, Federal and D.C. Circuits.

Education

University of Maryland, College Park, Md. B.A., History, 1977 Phi Beta Kappa
Yale Law School, New Haven, Ct. J.D., 1980. Editor, Yale Studies in World Public Order (now Yale Journal of International Law)

Publications and Presentations

Co-editor, ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Telecom Antitrust Handbook, 2d ed. (ongoing)
Voices Past: The Present and Future of VoIP Regulation, 14 CommLawConspectus365 (2006)
"Perspective: Bumps in the road for AT&T-BellSouth merger?", April 4, 2006 CNET News (click here to read)
"The next broadband battleground", March 23, 2006, CNET News
"The Law of Telecom: Identifying and Resolving Telecom Issues in Acquisitions and Transactions", The Pennsylvania Lawyer, September/October 2005, at 30 (with J. Daniel Hull)
Telecom Antitrust Handbook, Contributor, ABA Section of Antitrust Law, 1st ed. (2005)
"Antitrust Issues Raised by Product Bundling in Communications Markets", Antitrust Source, July 2004
"Living in Michael Powell's Future", Freedom to Connect Conference, Silver Spring, MD (April 2006)

Recognitions

Adjunct Professor: Communications Law Institute, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University, Washington D.C
AV Rating from Martindale-Hubbell
Named by the U.S. Government in 1995 to the roster of U.S. Panelists eligible for NAFTA Chapter 19 Dispute Resolution Proceedings

Association Memberships

Federal Communications Bar Association, Vice Chair, Transactional Practice Committee, ex-Vice Chair, International Practice Committee, ex-Vice Chair, Relations With Other Bars Committee, Vice Chair, ABA Antitrust Section, Computers and Internet Committee 2001-2005
Member, Yale Law School Alumni Executive Committee 2002-2006

Languages

French (conversational)
Italian (conversational)

Special Agencies

Federal Communications Commission

Practice Areas

U.S. and International Telecommunications Law
U.S. Antitrust Law

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