Michael Schooler
Michael Schooler is Deputy General Counsel of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association ("NCTA").
This is Mike's second tour of duty with NCTA. He began his legal career with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and joined NCTA as Associate General Counsel in 1982. He served as Deputy General Counsel and then General Counsel during the years when Congress and the FCC were enacting and implementing the 1984 and 1992 Cable Acts.
He left in 1993 to become a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Dow, Lohnes & Albertson. In September 1997, he returned to NCTA, where he has continued working on the broad range of regulatory and policy issues facing the cable industry at the Federal Communications Commission and in the courts.
He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Chicago Law School.
Appearances
- Legislating Network Neutrality – Necessary? June 8, 2006
Biography last updated June, 2006