Scale LLP Adds Telecom Team in DC, Expanding Media and Licensing Capabilities

Seth Williams and Adam Sandler bring experience in FCC licensing and enforcement, broadcast regulation, and related litigation

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scale LLP, a full-service national law firm, is expanding its telecommunications and media capabilities with the addition of two new attorneys, Seth Williams and Adam Sandler. It follows the addition earlier this year of Allison Rule and Michael Donahue to Scale’s growing DC-based telecom practice.

Williams and Sandler bring decades of combined experience advising broadcasters, telecommunications companies, calling platforms, and trade associations on licensing, transfers of control, enforcement, and M&A, as well as before the FCC, Congress, and state agencies on regulatory and litigation matters.

“Seth and Adam are top-tier FCC lawyers. They are perfectly positioned to advise telecom and media companies on a growing range of issues,” said David Reidy, Managing Partner at Scale. “This team broadens what we can do across licensing, FCC enforcement, and more, and we’re really excited to see where they take the practice here at Scale.”

Williams, who joins Scale as a Partner, advises clients on federal, state, and international telecommunications licensing, mergers and acquisitions, transfers of control, FCC enforcement proceedings, and telecommunications litigation. Williams previously clerked for former Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and for the FCC’s Audio Division. He earned his J.D. from Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.

Sandler joins as Counsel with more than 20 years of communications and media experience in private practice and at trade associations, advising broadcasters, telecommunications companies, and associations on licensing, compliance, transactions, and legislative and regulatory advocacy. His work covers media ownership, advertising compliance, broadband, and ATSC 3.0 deployment. Sandler earned his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.

“Scale gives us room to build our practices as part of its growing communications expertise and to practice alongside high-caliber lawyers who care about the same things we do,” said Williams. “What drew us here is that it’s a place where lawyers work together by habit, with colleagues we respect, and the chance to further shape what the telecommunications, media, and technology work at Scale becomes.”

Their arrival reflects Scale’s continued investment in specialized legal talent to serve clients navigating complex and evolving industries.

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