Mitchell Calhoun Email & Phone Number

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Promoted to Director in September 2023. Member of OGC leadership responsible for supervising experienced attorneys on multiple enterprise and telecommunications regulatory workstreams identified below.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Founding Director of USAC's Fraud Risk Group; Senior Privacy Counsel and leader of USAC's Privacy Team, lead counsel for all employment, litigation, and USF contributions matters.I currently co-lead USAC's Privacy Team in collaboration with USAC's Privacy Officer. The team addresses and manages all issues related to privacy and cybersecurity within USAC's.

Washington DC

• My work focuses primarily on labor and employment, telecommunications regulation, specifically the Schools and Libraries (E-rate) program on universal service, law enforcement, and litigation.Labor & EmploymentLead.
• Re-wrote USAC’s employee handbook in collaboration with the Human Resources Department to clarify USAC policies and close policy gaps.
• Created a new suite of Human Resources policies to close policy gaps, reduce resource waste, and create greater efficiency and structure in USAC’s Human Resources processes.
• Identified and corrected legal risks in USAC's employee relations procedures
• Partnered with Human Resources to create a new management training system and improved investigation training for HR staff.
• Represent USAC before the DC Office of Human Rights, the EEOC, and in employment litigation matters.Telecommunication Regulatory Legal Practice

Alexandria, Virginia

• Represent businesses and individuals as first or second chair litigation counsel in complex commercial, employment, and civil litigation matters. Direct all stages of litigation from pleadings to trial. Counsel.
• Negotiate settlements and commercial contracts. Prepare asset purchase agreements, employment, severance, non-competition and non-disclosure agreements as well as corporate governance and corporate creation documents.
• Successfully defended an apartment complex and regional residential property management company against fair housing discrimination, personal injury and wrongful death claims where the plaintiff sought over $2,000,000.
• Won a commercial real estate sale dispute case at trial and obtained a $500,000 property for my client.

Herndon, Virginia

• Represented employers and businesses in employment and commercial litigation and administrative agency actions in numerous federal and state jurisdictions. Advised corporate leadership on changes in federal and state.
• Represented multi-national corporation in litigation over the acquisition of a foreign entity and enforcement of the share purchase agreements.
• Obtained a favorable settlement for national corporation against a $400,000 workers’ compensation retaliation claim.
• Obtained favorable settlement for contractor against former employer’s breach of fiduciary duty and misappropriation of trade secrets claims.
• Obtained partial dismissal and favorable settlement of remaining claims for retail corporation in multi-plaintiff discrimination claim under Title VII.
• Served as second chair in a year-long arbitration action defending a Section 8A prime contractor against a subcontractor’s breach of contract claim.

Falls Church, VA

Solo practitioner and of counsel representing plaintiffs in labor and employment claims under Virginia labor laws, Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act before Virginia courts and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Acted as lead attorney and managed several cases through the entire.

Rockville, MD

Law Clerk to the Hon. Sharon V. BurrellPrepared opinions for criminal cases and appeals from the District Court, including post-conviction petitions and petitions for writs of error: coram nobis. Prepared issue and argument summary memoranda for upcoming hearings and trials.

Washington, DC

Prepared briefing materials, talking points, and policy recommendation summaries for Commissioner Clyburn's meetings with government officials and industry leaders on Universal Service, market regulation, and satellite interference issues. Wrote summary reports with policy recommendations on industry leaders'​ comments and arguments regarding Universal.

Washington, DC

Researched DC Home Rule Act issues and drafted arguments supporting the DC Council’s authority to amend federal statutes relating to the Second Amendment and DC voting rights for future argument before the U.S. DC District Court. Researched state health insurance regulations and policy for arguments presented to the Washington, DC, Insurance Commissioner..

Washington, DC

Evaluated service providers' comments on the implementation of the National Broadband Plan and drafted orders to effectively implement the National Broadband Plan. Evaluated applicant appeals to the Universal Service Fund’s E-Rate program and drafted Bureau orders resolving the appeals.

Washington, DC

Prepared new inmate offense regulations for implementation in federal prisons. Prepared revised regulations regarding the use of pepper spray in federal prisons in response to the federal correctional officers’ union’s requested changes to the CFR and prepared responses to the union. Reviewed inmate applications for admission to drug treatment programs and.

Performed research regarding radio spectrum and private property rights. Wrote memoranda regarding experts’ research and recent telecommunications judicial decisions and FCC rulings. Credited for research assistance by Professor Thomas Hazlett in Modular Confines of Mobile Networks: Are iPhones iPhony? (2009) & U.S. Wireless License Auctions 1994-2009.

Prepared patent applications, amendments, responses to notices of missing parts, and information disclosure statements for filing with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

Provided technical support for personal computing issues, both hardware and software. Scheduled customers' appointments with certified technicians. Provided administrative support to the technical and accounting staff.

Researched tax and oversight issues for hearings and representatives' statements. Created hearing materials, issue summaries, and hearing summaries.

Calendar & Courtoom Clerk for The Hon. J. Michael RyanProduced case notes for future written opinions. Explained court orders and proceedings to petitioners. Recorded courtroom proceedings. Prepared court orders for review.

Researched tax, health care, and other small business issues for upcoming hearings. Wrote hearing statements. Researched constituent issues regarding taxation and federal regulations.

Juris Doctorate, Law

Activities and Societies: Associate Research Editor - George Mason Law Review; Moot Court Board; Student Bar Ass’n.; American Bar Ass’n..

B.A, Political Science And Public Policy

Activities and Societies: Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, Vice President - Hugh Shields Award for Chapter Excellence Alpha Lambda Delta.