Mr. Turner is a senior partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. His practice focuses on public policy issues, including telecommunications and copyright policy, energy policy, tax policy, sanctions policy, homeland security, and a host of other public policy issues. As a member of the firm’s Public Policy Department, he helps clients block harmful legislation and regulatory policies and to chart a course for enactment of favorable legislation and regulatory policies.

Representative Matters:

• Represents the Home Recording Rights Coalition on copyright issues for the past two decades on Capitol Hill, including successful efforts to block harmful legislation through coalition-building with organizations that support fair use rights of consumers to use new technology.
  

• Represents XM Satellite Radio on copyright and related issues, including successful effort to block legislation in the 109th Congress that would have precluded company from selling new hand-held radios.
  

• Represented Tropos Networks on municipal broadband legislation adopted by the House of Representatives and the Senate Commerce Committee in the 109th Congress, as well as revised versions of legislation introduced in the 110th Congress.
  

• Represented the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power with respect to the enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
  

• Represents Sony Electronics on copyright and technology policy issues, both on Capitol Hill and before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
  

• Represents the Ad Hoc Deep Water Exploration and Production Coalition in successfully opposing legislation that would negate contracts entered into by coalition members to develop leases in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
  

• Represented, pro bono, the American Friends of the Czech Republic in securing adoption of a House Resolution honoring Sir Nicholas Winton for saving 669 children from death camps on the eve of World War II.