Christopher S. Huther

Mr. Huther has considerable experience representing clients in complex litigation before federal and state trial and appellate courts, as well as regulatory agencies across the U.S. and in Washington.  He also has an extensive background in counseling clients on regulatory issues that require complicated analyses and creative problem-solving.

Mr. Huther’s litigation experience focuses on the aviation and communications industries.  Most recently, Mr. Huther was lead trial counsel in a month-long administrative hearing before the Department of Transportation, representing a large coalition of international airlines in a challenge to a significant rate increase imposed at Los Angeles International Airport.  Mr. Huther similarly represented a large group of international airlines before the Department of Transportation in a week-long administrative trial challenging a substantial increase in terminal rents at Newark Liberty International Airport.  

Mr. Huther also represents telecommunications companies on a wide-array of matters, chief among them complex litigation involving local telephone competition and policy, pole attachment disputes, interconnection, universal service, inter-carrier compensation, and the development, defense and critique of telecommunications cost models and methodologies.  He regularly appears before state and federal judicial and administrative courts, federal agencies, and state public utility commissions.

Education

• J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1992
• B.S., Radford University, 1988, cum laude

Representative Counseling and Litigation Experience

Aviation

Counsel to numerous foreign airlines in challenges to new airport terminal charges at Newark International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport.

Telecommunications

Counsel to GTE in connection with arbitration proceedings under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Counsel to GTE, Verizon and SBC in state utility commission cost and pricing proceedings.

Counsel to GTE and Verizon in federal and state universal service fund proceedings.

Counsel to GTE, Verizon and SBC in development, defense, and critique of telecommunications cost models.

Counsel to Verizon in pole attachment litigation.

Counsel to Verizon in intercarrier compensation litigation.

Counsel to Telstra Corp. in connection with Australian universal service fund proceedings.

Counsel to Everett Laboratories, Inc. in Telephone Consumer Protection Act litigation.

Counsel to numerous foreign airlines in challenges to new airport terminal charges at Newark International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport

General Litigation

Experience includes trial and appellate representation of corporate and individual clients on a broad array of civil and criminal matters.