ALAN D. MANDL
Partner
Direct dial: 617 228-4464
Education:
- Boston College Law School (cum laude)
- Yale College (cum laude)
Practice Areas:
- Cable Law
- Energy and Public Utilities Law
- Telecommunications Law
Experience:
Alan D. Mandl has over 25 years of experience in the practice of cable, energy, public utilities and telecommunications law. He provides clients with the benefit of this experience in counseling and representing them in an efficient and economical manner.
Mr. Mandl is a cum laude graduate of both Yale College (1970), where he chaired the Yale Literary Magazine, and Boston College Law School (1974), where he was as an Articles Editor on the Boston College Industrial and Commercial Law Review. He served as a law clerk with the Massachusetts Appeals Court and taught Legal Research and Writing at Boston College Law School. A member of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Bars, he also is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Communications Law Forum and the Federal Communications Bar Association.
Mr. Mandl previously served as an Assistant Attorney General and as Chief of the Utilities Division of the Massachusetts Department of the Attorney General. He has represented municipal and investor-owned gas and electric utilities and now represents competitive providers of telecommunications services, wireless service providers, cable operators, a major cable trade association, suppliers of electric power, and large consumers of gas, electric, water and telecommunications services, including state agencies and municipalities. He has represented clients in numerous regulatory agency proceedings in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont and in various municipal permitting and licensing matters in Massachusetts.
Mr. Mandl also provides clients with general legal advice and assistance in transactional and litigation matters, energy and telecommunications-related tax advice, pole attachment licensing, franchising, cable overbuilds, interconnection agreements, public access issues, wireless and wireline telecommunications facilities siting, power supply transactions, and procurements of energy and telecommunications facilities and services. He has been involved with public procurement and bidding issues on behalf of both governmental as well as private clients. He frequently works as local counsel in cooperation with in-house and outside .
Mr. Mandl has previously chaired or participated on Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education panels on telecommunications issues and has addressed the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council, the New England Cable and Telecommunications Association, Inc., Massachusetts Municipal Association and other groups on cable, energy and telecommunications issues.
