David D. Rines is Of Counsel in the Washington D.C. office of Fish & Richardson. He focuses his practice on regulatory, policy, and commercial issues for wireline and wireless communications services, including commercial and private mobile radio services, internet and broadband access services, fixed wireless, and wireline telephony services.
The scope of his practice includes regulatory, policy, and legislative matters, licensing, market entry and competition, internet, new and emerging technologies, mergers and asset transfers, communications infrastructure, and spectrum issues. David also provides clients with strategic business planning advice from a regulatory, operational, and commercial perspective, including the negotiation and preparation of commercial agreements for communications-related products and services and the development and implementation of new programs, initiatives, and services.
David has prepared client filings and participated in proceedings before government agencies including the Federal Communications Commission, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the U.S. Department of Commerce and state public utility commissions, as well as before the European Commission and regulatory and competition authorities in several foreign jurisdictions.
Prior to law school, David served in the U.S. Army, with assignments to Tenth Special Forces Group (Airborne) and to the Defense Attaché Office at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine.