Scott Harris:  

Scott Blake Harris is Managing Partner of Wilkinson, Barker & Knauer LLP. Mr. Harris has practiced law in Washington D.C. for thirty-seven years both in the private sector and in government. He has had extensive litigation, telecommunications, technology, trade, energy, administrative, and national security law experience. Mr. Harris joined the firm after having served two years as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Neustar, Inc., a technology company headquartered in Virginia, and two years as General Counsel of the United States Department of Energy. At Neustar, Mr. Harris was responsible for the company’s legal, policy, communications, corporate marketing, and corporate social responsibility functions. Mr. Harris was nominated for his position at the Department of Energy BY President Obama, and was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate in May 2009. At Energy, Mr. Harris was the chief legal officer for the department where he began the first systematic effort to enforce the Department’s energy efficiency regulations and created its enforcement office. He also changed the rulemaking process to allow more public access and greater transparency, and played a key role in the Department’s efforts to tackle the legal and policy issues raised by the implementation of smart grid technologies. While at the Departmenr, Mr. Harris served as Co-Chair of the Broadband Subcommittee of the White House National Science and Technology Council. Mr. Harris has also been a partner in the law firms of Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, where he was managing partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he headed the communications practice, and Williams & Connolly, where began his career in private practice as a litigator. In addition, Mr. Harris served in government from 1993 to 1996, first as Chief Counsel for Export Administration in the United Sta...Expand for more