Stuart Shorenstein

Stuart A. Shorenstein is respected by his colleagues and clients for his resourcefulness, creativity, intellect, passion and effectiveness on behalf of the firm’s clients. A member of the Business Law Department, Stuart is a founder of the firm's Public Strategies Group and heads its New York Public Strategies team, where he advocates on behalf of clients with decision makers in all branches of local, state and federal government. Stuart’s legal career has been spent in the areas of communications and corporate law, where he has represented a wide range of clients in the broadcast, cable, broadband, new media and publishing industries, serving as regulatory and licensing counsel before the Federal Communications Commission and representing clients in hundreds of transactions, including sales, acquisitions and financings, and operational matters. Over the past three decades, Stuart has been actively involved in national, local and state politics. He has represented colleges, ports, major insurance companies, industry associations, not-for-profit organizations and a host of companies and entrepreneurs seeking change in government policy or an opportunity to present their positions and have their voices heard. He has served on transition teams at the national level for President Clinton, as well as statewide officeholders. He has provided strategic advice to literally hundreds of candidates, including senators, governors, congressmen and local and state officeholders and office seekers in New York. Stuart is a member of the Advisory Board of the Citizens Crime Commission in New York. Stuart was the first member from outside of Washington, D.C., to serve on the Executive Committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA). He has served as an officer of the FCBA and has co-chaired its Law Journal, Membership and Mass Media Committees, and is chair of its Transactional Practice Committee and co-chair of its New York Chapter. In 1995, he received that association's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award. He is also general counsel and a member of the board of directors of the International Radio and Television Society (IRTS). He has served as a member of the Subcommittee on Communications Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and as a director of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System and taught communications law on an adjunct basis at Hofstra Law School. He has lectured frequently at national conventions and has authored numerous articles on communications law issues. His case, Steele v. FCC established a landmark constitutional precedent in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Stuart is an avid Blue Devils fan having earned his undergraduate degree from Duke University. He is a graduate of the New York University School of Law, where he was named a University Scholar.