Jack Cole

Jack Cole has practiced communications law in Washington, D.C. for the past 44 years.Fresh out of The George Washington University Law School in 1956, he joined the legal staff of the Federal Communications Commission.Since 1957, he has been engaged in private practice and throughout that time has been intimately involved in the representation of cable television interests before the courts, the FCC and innumerable state and local franchising bodies.In 1966, he founded Cole, Raywid & Braverman.Jack Cole has been counsel over the years in many landmark proceedings before the FCC and the courts reflecting the development of the cable industry.He is the author of numerous articles and commentaries on cable regulatory issues including "Community Antenna Television, the Broadcaster Establishment and the Federal Regulator," The American University Law Review (June 1965); and "The Cable Television Press and the Protection of the First Amendment -- A Not So 'Vexing Question,'" California Western Law Review (May 1992).He is a 1953 graduate of Auburn University.