James L. Casserly Partner MAIN OFFICE: Washington Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 1875 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006-1238, U.S.A. T 202-303-1119 F 202-303-2119

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James L. Casserly is a partner in the Telecommunications Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Washington, D.C.  Mr. Casserly specializes in communications policymaking and transactions involving video programming and distribution, broadband Internet, phone services, and new technologies.

Mr. Casserly has produced outcome-changing advocacy in Federal Communications Commission and judicial proceedings and in legislative debates.

Chambers USA (2007) ranks Mr. Casserly among the leading individuals practicing in the area of telecom, broadcast & satellite (regulatory) law in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Casserly is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association, where he has been a Co-Chair of the Annual Seminar Committee (2004-2005), the Law Journal Committee (2000-2004) and the Committee on Legislation (1984-87).

Prior to joining Willkie, Mr. Casserly was a partner at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., and at Squire, Sanders, and Dempsey.

From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Casserly served as Senior Legal Advisor to FCC Commissioner Susan Ness. As top advisor to the senior Commissioner, he was active in deliberations concerning the full scope of matters arising before the FCC, ranging from competitive safeguards and intercarrier compensation to spectrum auctions and children’s television programming. He was also integrally involved in all aspects of the agency’s implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, with particular attention to local telephone competition, universal service, and federal-state jurisdictional relationships. His duties at the FCC included strategic planning, congressional and executive branch liaison, legal and political analysis, negotiations, speechwriting, and media relations.

Mr. Casserly also served as law clerk to the Hon. Marion T. Bennett of the United States Court of Claims, Appellate Division (now the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) and, before that to the trial judges of the United States Court of Claims (now the U.S. Court of Federal Claims).