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Raymond L. Gifford

Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP
  • Recognized Since:
    2013
  • Recognized in:
    Communications Law
  • Law School:
    University of Chicago
  • Lawyer Page:
    http://www.wbklaw.com/Our_Team...
  • Website:
    http://www.wbklaw.com
  • Location:
    951 Twentieth Street
    P.O. Box 1440
    Denver, CO 80202
"Raymond Gifford is very insightful, especially on policy matters."
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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, and the law and economics of regulation of network industries.  He represents clients in state and federal courts and agencies, and serves as an expert witness on utility regulation and its history. Mr. Gifford’s law and policy work focuses on the convergence of broadband communications and energy, as well as competition and environmental policy as it applies to communications and electricity markets.

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 served as Chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.  Mr. Gifford began his regulatory career as First Assistant Attorney General for Regulatory Law in the Colorado Attorney General’s office.  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 communications law, public utility regulation and competition policy in network industries.

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Education:

  • St. John's College, BA, graduated 1989
  • University of Chicago , JD, graduated 1992

Bar Admissions:

  • New Mexico, 2018
  • Wyoming, 2017
  • Colorado, 1992
 

Court Admissions:

  • United States District Court for Colorado - 1992
  • U.S. District Court for Nebraska
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit - 1994
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Affiliations:

  • Federalist Society’s Telecommunications Practice Group - Former Chairman
  • University of Colorado Law School - Adjunct Faculty
  • Federal Communications Bar Association - Co-Chair, Rocky Mountain Chapter
  • Institute for Regulatory Law and Economics - Co-Director
  • Silicon Flatirons Center for Law and Entrepreneurship - Senior Adjunct Fellow and Chairman

Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers for:

  • Communications Law, Denver (2020)
  • Communications Law, Denver (2013)
 

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:

  • Communications Law
 

Awards:

  • Best Lawyers, Denver Communications Lawyer of the Year, 2013
  • Featured Attorney, Telecoms and Broadcast: Regulatory (Legal 500, 2011)
  • Elected Member, American Law Institute
  • Best Lawyers in America in Communications Law, 2013-2017
  • Colorado Super Lawyer - 2015-2017

Special Focus:

  • Telecommunications
 

Additional Information:

Practice Areas
  • Administrative & Court Litigation
  • Broadband & IP-Enabled Services
  • Electric Power
  • Energy Regulation
  • Grid Modernization
  • Natural Gas
  • State Regulation
  • Wired Communications
 

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"Raymond Gifford is very insightful, especially on policy matters."

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Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP
http://www.wbklaw.com
 
Headquarters
1800 M Street, NW, Suite 800-N
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 783.4141
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United States

United States

Colorado

Colorado

Denver, CO

951 Twentieth Street

P.O. Box 1440

Denver, CO 80202

United States

(303) 626.2350

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