Practice Profile
Glenn
Manishin is a partner with the rapidly growing, AmLaw 100 firm of Duane Morris LLP, resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. His legal
practice concentrates on antitrust, complex litigation and telecom and technology policy.
Technology Policy
 A
pioneer in the synthesis of law and public policy for technology companies,
Glenn has over the years represented a veritable "who's who" of Internet-centric
clients — including Netscape, MCI, Oracle, Google, Travelocity, Excite@Home, Echelon, Siebel, Tellme, SlingMedia and
others — on
such cutting-edge issues as content protection and distribution, software antitrust, cybersecurity and Internet
regulation, privacy, standards, spam, domain name competition, Internet
gaming and taxation, broadband
access and universal service. His practice also encompasses capital structuring
and transactional issues for mature and emerging growth technology companies,
and he serves as counsel for or on the Advisory Board of numerous start-up
ventures.
Antitrust
Antitrust law has long been a centerpiece of Glenn’s career, in which he is the only attorney to have appeared as counsel-of-record in
the most significant antitrust cases spanning two generations — the AT&T and Microsoft monopolization cases. He was principal decree (MFJ) counsel for MCI, McCaw Cellular and other competitors before late District Judge Harold Greene for more than a decade. Later Glenn authored the landmark February 1999 White Paper
by the Software & Information
Industry Association proposing a divestiture remedy for the United
States v. Microsoft antitrust litigation. He served as counsel
for ProComp
(The Project to Promote Competition in the Digital Age) and
the Computer & Communications
Industry Association — along with former Judges Robert
Bork and Kenneth Starr — in the federal appellate challenge to the government's settlement and consent decree. Glenn has also handled a number of
ground-breaking antitrust
cases
arising out of the relationship between regulation
and competition in network effects industries and the interface between IP and antitrust law.
Telecommunications
Glenn has participated in virtually all of the most important
regulatory, judicial and legislative proceedings affecting telecommunications
and
the Internet for more than two decades. He was one of a handful
of lawyers selected
by the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis
to present oral argument in Iowa Utilities Board v. FCC, the
first federal appeal
of the FCC's local competition rules implementing the Telecommunications
Act
of 1996, by the Third Circuit in Philadelphia for Prometheus
Radio Project v. FCC, which reversed the FCC's 2003 repeal
of long-standing rules limiting broadcast and
mass media concentration, and by the D.C. Circuit in 2007 for Vonage & CCIA v. FCC, the first judicial challenge to the regulated status of VoIP technology. He was instrumental
in lobbying for
the 1996 Act, in which he successfully
represented the Computer and High-Tech Coalition in securing an
amendment that limits the
FCC’s standards-setting powers in computer-related markets,
and in subsequent FCC and appellate cases opening local telephone
networks
for
Digital Subscriber
Line services and broadband Internet access. Glenn has served as outside
counsel for several telecommunications trade associations, including the Association
for Local Telecommunications Services (ALTS) and the International
Prepaid Communications Association (IPCA). He serves in addition
as pro bono counsel
for such public
interest organizations as Consumers
Union, the Consumer
Federation of America and Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility.
Background
Before joining Duane Morris, Glenn was a partner with Kelley Drye & Warren LLP (2001-08), Patton
Boggs LLP (1999-2001) and a Washington, DC telecom boutique
(1990-99). He is
a former
partner with Jenner & Block,
antitrust counsel to MCI, and trial attorney with the US Department
of Justice, Antitrust Division. He served as a member of the
US Access Board’s Telecommunications Accessibility Advisory
Committee in 1996-97, and of the North American Numbering Council,
an advisory
committee to the FCC,
in 1997-99.
Media & Publications
Glenn has written and lectured frequently on telecommunications
and technology policy, appearing as a commentator on such national
media as
CNN, CBS, MSNBC,
Bloomberg, PBS, Fox News and NPR as well as in the Wall
Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today,
Washington Post, Business
Week and San Jose Mercury News. His publications
include
articles on convergence
of the communications and computer industries, cybersecurity,
spam, the AT&T
divestiture and the role of the First Amendment in cable television.
Curriculum Vitae
Glenn is admitted to the California, District of Columbia
and Virginia Bars, and is a member of the American Bar Association
and
the Federal
Communications Bar Association. He holds a J.D. from Columbia
Law School, where we was Notes & Comments
Editor of the Columbia Law Review, and a B.A. cum laude from
Brandeis University.
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