Partner - Telecommunications
CurrentMr. Richards serves as counsel to the American Petroleum Institute on telecommunications matters before the FCC and as the General Counsel of ENTELEC, the Energy, Telecommunications and Electrical Association.Prior to joining Keller and Heckman in 1986, he served for 10 years as an attorney at the Federal Communications Commission, where he held senior policy and management positions; including Legal Assistant to Commissioner Mimi Dawson; Chief of the Enforcement Branch; and Chief of the Rules Branch, Land Mobile and Microwave Division of the Private Radio (now Wireless Telecommunications) Bureau