Blog Post: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 Employed 1000 Lawyers for A Decade

Blog Post: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 Employed 1000 Lawyers for A Decade

By Scott Wallsten
February 8, 2016

February 8, 2016 is the 20th anniversary of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, whose primary goal was creating a “procompetitive, deregulatory framework.” In this blog post, I consider one indicator near and dear to Washington, DC: How did it affect lawyers? (And what might that answer say about how well the Act met its goals?)

Read more here: https://techpolicyinstitute.org/2016/02/08/the-telecommunications-act-of-1996-employed-1000-lawyers-for-a-decade/

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Amy V. Smorodin is Vice President of Communications and External Relations at the Technology Policy Institute. Prior to joining TPI, she was Vice President of Communications at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. Smorodin also served as a public policy communications specialist at the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a global tech industry association. She began her media and public relations career at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, where she acted as liaison between families, law enforcement, and the media. Smorodin attended American University in Washington, DC.
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
asmorodin at techpolicyinstitute.org

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