Mr Justin Connor

• General Counsel

  Meraas Capital

• Director, Legal and Regulatory Affairs

  Emirates International Telecommunications LLC

• Head of Telecommunications Practice

  Al Tamimi & Company

• Senior Attorney

  Federal Communications Commission

• Fulbright Scholar

  La Sagesse University Faculty of Law

• Associate

  Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP

• Visiting Lecturer In Law

  Civic Education Project Inc

• Legal Counsel

  Democrats Abroad

• Founder and Co-Chair

  Dubai Corporate Counsel Group

• Board of Advisors Member

  SAMENA Council

• Board Member (past)

  American Business Council of Dubai & the Northern Emirates

• Chairman (past)

  American Bar Association, Judicial Division, Lawyers Conference

• Co-President (past)

  GAYLAW Inc

• Board of Directors Members (past)

  GAYLAW Inc

• Member of the Bar

  U.S. Supreme Court

• Member of the Bar

  State of New York Court of Appeals

• Member of the Bar

  State of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

• Member of the Bar

  District of Columbia Court of Appeals

• Member of the Bar

  United States District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit

• Juris Doctor, Law

  Northeastern University School of Law

• B.A., History

  Earlham College

Justin Connor is an American trained and licensed attorney, admitted in New York, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

Justin is Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at Emirates International Telecommunications, a Dubai Holding company. Previously, Justin was Senior Lawyer and headed the Telecom practice Al Tamimi & Company, the largest national law firm in the Dubai, UAE. Before joining Al Tamimi, Justin was Senior Attorney at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in Washington DC where he drafted laws, regulation and policies on the domestic regulation of telecommunications, reviewed significant international mergers and acquisitions, prepared Congressional testimony and advised the FCC on international trade/WTO matters.

In 2004, Justin was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to teach at La Sagesse University Faculty of Law in Beirut, Lebanon and his work focused on the process of telecommunications liberalization and reform in the Middle East.

Before joining the FCC, Justin practiced law in the Litigation Department of the international law firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP in Washington DC. Whilst in law school, Justin also clerked for a Federal appeals court judge and worked at the law firms of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. in Boston and Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C.

Specialties:

Specializing in corporate and commercial law with an emphasis on telecommunications, including regulatory, mergers and acquisitions and dispute resolution