Adam Shoemaker

Adam Shoemaker focuses on the legal and regulatory needs of communications clients, particularly eligible telecommunications carriers ("ETCs") before the Federal Communications Commission and state public utility commissions. He has drafted and filed designation petitions and advocacy comments throughout the country for wireless ETCs seeking to participate in the Lifeline program, which helps provide telephone service to low-income Americans. As a part of the firm's Lifeline program team, Adam has wide experience in assisting ETC clients navigate the complex rules and practical realities associated with the Lifeline program at the state and federal levels. Adam's broadband experience includes a key role on a grant-writing team whose multimillion dollar proposal would create a broadband Internet infrastructure in American Samoa funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.