Dennis Corbett

Practice Areas

Dennis arrived at TLP in January 2017. A graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown Law, Dennis was previously a longtime member and head of the Broadcast Practice Group at the well-regarded communications law firm Lerman Senter PLLC. At TLP, Dennis handles diverse regulatory and transactional matters, ranging from day-to-day client representation to participation in multiple agency and court proceedings involving issues of industry-wide concern. Dennis also handles major administrative and court litigation, and FCC Enforcement Bureau proceedings, for a wide variety of clients.

Dennis’ many cases have involved broadcast issues such as sponsorship identification, indecency, political advertising, and renewal-related matters, as well as wireless issues that range across such matters as innovative uses of spectrum bands, drones and drone accessory equipment, and spectrum auctions. He made the petitioner’s oral argument before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in a case that secured the set aside of certain FCC rules restricting the practical ability of small businesses to utilize bidding credits in spectrum auctions. Council Tree Communications, Inc. v. FCC, 619 F.3d 235 (3rd Cir. 2010).

Dennis has long been active in the Federal Communications Bar Association. At various times, he has co-chaired the FCBA’s Enforcement, Mass Media, and (former) Access to Records Committees. He has also twice served on the FCBA’s Executive Committee, including a current two-year stint that comes with his service as the FCBA’s voting representative within the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates.

Career

Lerman Senter PLLC, 2009-2016,

Leventhal Senter & Lerman PLLC, 1986-2008,

McKenna, Wilkinson & Kittner, 1979-1986

Professional Memberships

District of Columbia Bar

United States Supreme Court

United States Courts of Appeals for the D.C.,Third and Tenth Circuits

Personal

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1979.

Harvard College, A.B., magna cum laude, 1975