My Background

Alan D. Mandl, Esquire

MY BACKGROUND

Efficient, Cost Effective Representation Based On
Over 40 Years Of Experience Representing Private And Public Sector Clients Regarding Cable Television, Wireless, Wireline, Public Utility And Energy Regulatory And Transactional Matters

For over 40 years, I have represented public and private sector clients regarding cable, energy/public utility, wireline and wireless telecommunications administrative litigation, regulatory and transactional matters. At the beginning of my legal career, I served as a law clerk to Justice Edmund V. Keville at the Massachusetts Appeals Court and as a full-time Instructor of Legal Research and Writing at Boston College Law School (as well as the player-coach of a Law School basketball team known as the TJ Hoopers). For five years, I served as an Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Utilities Division of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General as a representative of consumer interests in public utility and telephone company rate cases, financing applications and other proceedings.  In private practice, I have represented investor-owned and municipal utilities, cable operators and a cable trade association, competitive local exchange carriers, wireless service providers and state and local governmental entities. I also served for twelve years as a part-time Assistant City Solicitor for the City of Newton, Massachusetts.

Representation of a wide range of stakeholders involving complementary industries has afforded an appreciation of their specific interests and how these interests can be effectively balanced (or vindicated) in the context of transactions, permitting and regulatory matters. My recent comments filed with the FCC in its wireless NPRM, WT. 25-276, illustrate how municipal and wireless stakeholder interests can be reasonably accommodated on contested issues like permitting fees and the use of testing to verify compliance with the FCC’s RFE regulations.