NICHOLAS W. ALLARD
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PARTNER - PATTON BOGGS, LLP (Washington, D.C.) (2005 - ); (Chair, Government
Advocacy Practice) (2010 – ); (Chair, Public Policy and Regulatory Department) (2006 –
2010); (Chair, Health Targeted Industry Practice) (2010- )
PARTNER - LATHAM & WATKINS LLP (Washington, D.C.) (1993 – 2004); (Chair,
Government Relations Group)
ADJUNCT FACULTY - GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
Courses: Law and Order in Cyberspace, (1998 – 04); Advanced Communications and
Information Technology Law (1999 –03)
ADJUNCT FACULTY - GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MCDONOUGH SCHOOL OF
BUSINESS Course: Privacy and Computers - (2002 – 05); and GEORGETOWN
UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER Course: Professor Richard Gordon’s Entertainment and Media
Law (1996-03)
PARTNER - FOX, BENNETT & TURNER (Washington, D.C.) (1987 – 1992)
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, U.S. SENATOR DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN
(D-NY) (1986 – 1987)
MINORITY STAFF COUNSEL, U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY;
Staff to Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) (1983 – 1986)
ASSOCIATE - KAYE SCHOLER, FIERMAN, HAYS & HANDLER
(New York and Washington, D.C.) (1981 – 1983)
LAW CLERK, HONORABLE PATRICIA M. WALD
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1980 – 1981)
LAW CLERK, HONORABLE ROBERT P. PECKHAM, CHIEF JUDGE
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (1979 – 1980)
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
New York and the District of Columbia - All Courts
U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U. S. Court of International Trade
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
EDUCATION
Yale University
J.D. 1979; Director, Thomas Swann Barrister’s Union; John C.
Gallagher Prize Trial; Research Assistant to Professor Owen M.
Fiss.
Oxford University
M.A. 1976; Rhodes Scholar; Politics, Philosophy, and
Economics at Merton College; Captain, Merton College Rowing
Team; Oxford University Ice Hockey Team.
Princeton University
A.B. 1974; Honors in Woodrow Wilson School of Public &
International Affairs; Detwiler Class of 1903 Prize; Chairman,
the Honor Committee; Senior Class President; Chairman,
Undergraduate Assembly; Sophomore Class President; Member,
University Council; Rugby and Ice Hockey teams; Hal Lumis
Memorial Band Award; Captain, Dormitory and Food Services
Staff.
DISTINCTIONS, BOARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS, ACTIVITIES
“Visionaries” Award, National Journal - Legal Times (2010)
“Hermes” Award for contribution to study of communication laws, Syracuse University College
of Law, Communications Law and Policy Society (2010)
Patton Boggs Pro Bono Attorney of the Year (Honorable Mention) (2010)
Listed in “Top Lobbyists”, The Hill (2009, 2010, 2011)
Special State Attorney General, New Mexico (Appointed 2006)
Arbitrator, Telenor Mobile Communications A.S. v. Republic of Hungry, ICSID Case No.
ARB/04/15 (2006)
John W. Bader Princeton Class of 1974 Service Award (May 2004)
Alumni Council Award for Service to Princeton (May 29, 1999)
National Law Journal, Review of Top 40 Health Lawyers in U. S. (April 7, 1997)
National Satellite Publishing, Inc., Wireless Attorney of the Year (1995)
Wireless Communications Association International, President’s Award (1992, 1993)
Council on Foreign Relations, Term Member (1986-1991)
Federal Bar Association, Distinguished Service Award, 1985; Member of the Board, D.C.
Chapter (1985-92); National Membership Committee (1985-92); Special Editor; Federal Bar
News and Journal
Advisory Board, Clean Energy Systems, Inc. (2005- )
National Advisory Board, Center For National Policy, Washington, D.C. (1994-2000)
Advisory Board, University of Washington School of Law, Journal of Law, Technology & Art
(2003- ) (formerly known as the Shidler Center Journal of Law, Communications and
Technology)
Advisory Board, Hastings University Communications and Entertainment Law Journal
(1994- )
Advisory Board and Founding Member, Center for Technology Law, George Mason University
(1998-2004)
Trustee, The Shakespeare Theatre Company (2008- ); Co-Chair, “Will on the Hill” benefit,
2010, 2011; Development Committee; Personnel Committee
Director, Association of American Rhodes Scholars (1998- ); Secretary, (2006- ); Co-Chair,
Rhodes Trust Capital Campaign (2008- ); Secretary, Class of 1974 American Rhodes Scholars;
Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, District V, Secretary, (2002- ); Member (1998- )
Director, Merton College Charitable Corporation (1991- ); America’s Campaign Committee,
Merton College (2011- ); Merton Society Board Member
Director, the NOVUS Group (1990-1992)
Member ABA Standing Committee the Law Library of Congress (2011- )
Member, ABA Administrative Law Section, Task Force on Lobbying Regulation (2009- )
Member, Association of Former Senate Aides
Member, American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, Federal Communications Bar
Association
Princeton Alumni Activities include: Member, Advisory Board, Scholars in the Nation’s
Service, Woodrow Wilson School (2007- ); Member, Council of the Princeton University
Community (1974, 2005-06); Alumni Council Executive Committee (2001- 06); National
Schools Committee (1992-95, 2000- ), Chairman (2003-05); Chairman, Alumni Schools
Admission Committee for Southern Maryland (1986-91); Committee to Nominate Alumni
Trustees (1989-92), Chairman (1991-92); President, Class of 1974 (1972, 1974, 1994-99);
Member, Alumni Council Task Force on Alcohol (1998-99); Member, Alumni Council Strategic
Planning Committee (1997-99); Co-Chair, Princeton Club of Washington 250th Celebration
(with Anne Linton and John Vogel) (Weekend Symposium: The Transformation of Learning in
the Age of Technology); President, Princeton Club of Washington (1992-94); Vice President,
Princeton Club of Washington (1990-92); Chairman, Annual Giving in Washington, D.C. (198286), 1974 Class Agent (2010- ); Orange & Black Society, John Maclean Society
Coach, Montgomery County Recreation League Youth Baseball (1987-1997); (Championship
Team 1997)
White House Fellows Selection Committee (1999-2001)
Aspen Institute Justice and Society Seminar (2008- )
PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE
Foreword (with Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr.), The ABA Lobbying Manual: A Complete Guide to Federal Lobbying Law
and Practices, Luneburg, Susman and Gordan, Editors (Fifth Edition 2011); “Practical Perspectives on the Practice
of Lobbying”, chapter, The ABA Lobbying Manual, supra; Book Review: “Vacancy: A Judicial Misadventure” by
Edwin M. Yoder, The American Oxonian (Spring 2011); Book Review: “Far Flung and Well Fed” by R.W. Apple,
Jr., The American Oxonian (Winter 2010); “Mr. Chief Justice: Open These Doors,” Politico (October 4, 2010);
“My Turn: We Need More Lobbyists,” Newsweek (February 22, 2010); “Lobbying is An Honorable Profession: the
Right to Petition and the Competition to be Right,” Stanford Law and Policy Review, (2008); “Digital Divide: Myth,
Reality, and Responsibility, 24 Hastings Comm/ENT L.J 449 (2003), “FCC’s Agenda Should Place Priority on Broad
Reform,” Washington Legal Foundation Opinion Letters, Vol. II No. 4 (May 4, 2001); “Potholes on the Broadband
Highway …”, Private and Wireless Broadband Magazine (July 2000); “Navigating the College Admissions
Process”, Associated Press (Nov.1, 1999); “Privacy On-Line”, 20 Hastings COMM/ENT L.J. 511 (1998); “Frontier
Justice”, The Newark-Star Ledger, Perspective, P. 1 (Nov. 9, 1997); “Everything You Need to Know About Legal
Change: Ten Top Wireless Developments Ahead,” Private Cable and Wireless Cable Magazine (October 1997);
“Law And Order in Cyberspace,” 18 Hastings COMM/ENT L. J. 563 (1997); “Show Me the Money!: New Mantra
for Personal Communications Services,” PCS Focus (June 1997); “Copyright: From Stone Age Caves to the
Celestial Jukebox,” 17 Hastings COMM/ENT L. J. 867 (1996); “U.S. Leads the World in Uncivil Politics,” L.A.
Daily Journal, p. 6 (July 26, 1996); “A New Star Chamber?”, L.A. Daily Journal, p.6. (July 3, 1996); “Getting to
Compromise,” Legal Times, S30 (Feb. 12, 1996); “Not Off the Hook: Telecomm Legislation Ahead,” The NewarkStar Ledger P. 1 (Feb. 11, 1996); “Commentary: The Price of Vacating Congress”, The Recorder (Los Angeles, Feb.
21, 1996); “The Unfinished Business of Congress: Top Ten Technology Issues Ahead,” Legal Times, S27 (Nov. 20,
1995); “The Brave New World of Personal Communications Services,” PCS Focus (Sept. 1995); “Reinventing
Competition,” 17 Hastings COMM/ENT L.J. 264 (1994); “Must Carry and the Courts: Bleak House, the Sequel,” 13
Cardozo Arts & Entertainment L.J. (1994); “Telecom Reform Delayed, But On Track,” Telecom Finance (Oct.
1994); “Can Congress Count?,” Red Herring (August 1994); “U.S. Telecoms Policy: New Openings for Wireless
Business,” Telecom Finance (July 1994); “Congress Breaks Ground on Information Superhighway Legislation,”
National Law Journal (March 7, 1994); “The New Spectrum Auction Law,” 18 Seton Hall Legislative Journal 13
(1993); “Reinventing Rate Regulation,” 46 Federal Communications Law Journal 63 (1993); “The 1992 Cable
Act: Just the Beginning,” 15 Hastings Comm/ENT L.J. 305 (1993); “Debalkanize the Telecommunications
Marketplace,” 28 California Western Law Review 231 (1992); “Exporting United States Pharmaceuticals in the
1980s,” 39 Food Drug Cosmetic Law Journal 411 (1984); “International Health and Safety Regulation of
Biotechnology” (Report to the U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment) (1983); “Bedtime for Bivens . . .,”
20 Harvard Journal on Legislation 470 (1983) (with T. Madden and D. Remes); “The Future of Damage Actions
Against Government Officials,” 30 Federal Bar Journal & News 77 (1983) (with T. Madden); “Advice on Official
Liability and Immunity” (Report to the Administrative Conference of the United States on Recommendation 82-6),
ACUS Recommendations and Reports (1982), Volume II, 201; and Class Letters (annual essays), The American
Oxonian (1985- ).
Frequent lectures and speeches before academic, student, government and professional audiences
throughout the United States and abroad (list available on request)