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Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Robert Corn-Revere is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, specializing in First Amendment, Internet and communications law. He has served as counsel in cases challenging the constitutionality online speech restrictions in the Communications Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act, and was lead counsel in Mainstream Loudoun, Inc. v. Board of Trustees of the Loudoun County Public Library, the first case to hold that mandatory use of Internet content filters in public libraries violates the First Amendment. He successfully argued United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc., in which the United States Supreme Court struck down Section 505 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as a violation of the First Amendment.

He has written extensively on First Amendment, Internet and communications-related issues and has provided expert testimony before numerous congressional committees and the FCC. He is co-author of a three-volume treatise entitled Modern Communications Law, published by West Group, and is Editor and co-author of the book Rationales & Rationalizations. Mr. Corn-Revere is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Pike & Fischer's Internet Law & Regulation.

Before joining Davis Wright Tremaine L.L.P., Mr. Corn-Revere was a partner at Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. in Washington D.C. from 1994 to 2003. Prior to that, he served as Chief Counsel to Chairman James H. Quello of the Federal Communications Commission. Previously, from 1990 until 1993, he was Commissioner Quello's Legal Advisor. In 2003, he successfully petitioned Governor George E. Pataki to grant the first posthumous pardon in New York history to the late comedian Lenny Bruce.