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Christopher W. Savage

Partner

T 202.973.4211 Washington, D.C.
If my clients’ problems were easy, they wouldn’t ask me to help solve them.
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Chris Savage, CIPP/US and CIPT/US, helps companies in communications and data-centric industries navigate legal and regulatory issues involving communications, privacy, and data security. For clients with immediate problems, when compromise is possible, he negotiates solutions that work. When it isn’t, he litigates – against the government or private parties, as needed. For clients who can take a longer view, Chris works with regulators and legislators to help build a legal ecosystem where clients can flourish.

Chris brings nearly four decades of diverse experience to every client problem. He has handled issues about competitors entering established markets; technical and economic aspects of network interconnection; deployment of new technology and infrastructure; data security and privacy; and complex issues of cost allocation, financial accounting, and contract interpretation.

To keep up with the constant change in his field, Chris regularly participates in formal and informal discussion forums with other high-level legal and technical professionals; he teaches Internet law at George Washington University and at Catholic University, and Information Privacy Law at Catholic; and he recently completed an article on the economics of consumer privacy for the Stanford Technology Law Review, a leading academic journal addressing complex issues at the intersection of law and technology.

Practice Highlights

Helping a Start-Up social media app gain competitive advantage by protecting privacy

Advising a start-up social media app, devoted to strong privacy for its users, on how to architect data storage and processing to maximize protections, and how to craft a privacy policy that emphases the app’s competitive privacy advantage – all while still complying with the GDPR and United States privacy rules.

Protecting innovative communications competitor against attacks by foreign monopolist

Lead counsel in federal court litigation defending a competitive communications company against claims that its Internet-based international calling (VoIP) service violated United States law, while pursuing counterclaims contending that the foreign plaintiff, a near-monopolist in its home country, violated United States’ communications and antitrust laws.

Ensuring reasonable prices for a mobile carrier’s backhaul circuits

Secured reversal in the 1st Circuit – with express directions to the lower court to enter judgment for the client – of a district court ruling that had required the mobile carrier client to pay millions of dollars over originally agreed rates to a landline telephone company for backhaul links from the mobile carrier’s cell sites to its switch. Puerto Rico Tel. Co. v. T-Mobile P.R. LLC, 678 F.3d 49 (1st Cir. 2012).
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Admitted to Practice

  • District of Columbia, 1982
  • California, 1980
  • U.S. Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit, 1983
  • U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1980
  • U.S. District Court District of Columbia, 1982

Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School, 1980, cum laude
  • A.B., Economics, Sociology, Harvard College, 1977, magna cum laude

Professional Recognition

    • Named one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Communications Law by Best Lawyers, 2015
    • Selected to "Washington D.C. Super Lawyers" in Communications, Thomson Reuters, 2013-2020
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