Roger J Kiley Jr

Roger Kiley has extensive experience in public law, communications law and government relations. He has also advised clients as a litigation consultant and an arbitrator. Roger has counseled on complex land use, real estate development, financial, construction, and infrastructure transactions with and for government. He also has provided legislative advocacy in the Illinois General Assembly, and facilitates zoning and intergovernmental transactions. As Senior Vice President and General Counsel for AT&T Midwest from 2002-2008, Roger had been actively involved with AT&T Midwest during its business growth through two significant mergers, including the related regulatory implications and integration efforts. He has managed the litigation, business and regulatory affairs of the company’s five Midwestern states and the state of Connecticut, and the regulatory issues of its 13 Northeastern states. Where appropriate and consistent with the AT&T Code of Business Conduct, Roger has involved the resources of Mayer Brown to respond to AT&T Midwest’s needs. Throughout nearly five decades Roger has compiled an impressive record of public service. That includes serving as Chief of Staff to Mayor Richard M. Daley, Chicago (1995-1996), as Judge with the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (1976-1989), as Committee Counsel to the General Government Committee in the Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention (1970) and as General Counsel to the Board of Trustees of Junior College District No. 508, Chicago (1968-1971). He has most recently been with Mayer Brown since 1996, and also practiced with the firm from 1989 to 1995 and from 1966 to 1968. Roger was a US Marine Corps pilot from 1958 to 1962, and subsequently served four years as a US Marine Corps Reserve pilot, US Naval Air Station, Glenview, Illinois.