Barry D. Wood Ronald D. Maines Nathaniel J. Hardy |
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Stuart W. Nolan, Jr.
4600 Fairfax Dr.
Suite 604
Arlington, VA 22203
Ph. 703.465.2361
Fx. 703.465.2365 Email: nolan@legalcompass.com |
Telecommunications and media businesses are often far removed from the political machinations of Washington, DC. In a dozen years of practice, Stuart Nolan has principally represented the interests of regulated media operations, and especially the interests of religious broadcasters, before federal administrative agencies and appellate courts. His understanding of political influences on law and policy has informed his strategic advice to the firm's broadcast and media clients. His public policy experience includes work for the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, the Federal Communications Commission, and several respected think tanks. As a visiting scholar at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, he examined spectrum management policy. His published work has analyzed the political expression rights and responsibilities of individuals and businesses.
Mr. Nolan has extensive experience as regulatory counsel in state and federal civil litigation involving commercial broadcast licensees at the trial level and before appellate courts. Moreover, he has advised both commercial and noncommercial telecommunications and media operations on a range of compliance and enforcement issues, including ownership concentration, license renewals, spectrum auctions, noncommercial educational and low power FM comparative criteria, equal employment opportunity requirements, children's television programming mandates, program exclusivity rights, direct broadcast satellite and cable carriage, and rulemaking proceedings. He also provides regulatory counsel and strategic advice for media clients involved in transactions, including the negotiation and drafting of purchase agreements and time brokerage agreements.
In recent years, Mr. Nolan has developed a particular emphasis in his practice supporting members of the Catholic Radio Association who seek to establish a greater presence for Catholic radio programming in communities throughout America. A past Grand Knight of his Knights of Columbus council and a member of the board of Human Life International, he has been pleased to assist both existing media enterprises and new broadcasting start-ups make available to local audiences programming content that re-introduces faith to the public square.
Mr. Nolan is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association, the National Lawyers Association, the Federalist Society, the Board of Visitors of Ave Maria School of Law, and the Advisory Board of Life Decisions International.
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EDUCATION
J.D., Catholic University of America (Columbus School of Law, 1998)
* Certificate, Institute for Communications Law Studies
* Certificate, Law & Public Policy Program
B.A., American University (School of Public Affairs), 1992
* Political Science
* Communications
* Interdisciplinary Studies: Communications, Legal Institutions, Economics and Government |
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Commonwealth of Virginia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
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PUBLICATIONS
Campaign Finance Reform: Applying the First Amendment in a Marketplace of Ideas, 6 COMMLAW CONSPECTUS 113 (1998)
Patterns of Corporate Philanthropy (Capital Research Center, 1992-95) |
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