Kenneth Salomon

Kenneth Salomon is Chairman of Dow Lohnes Government Strategies. He works with clients in the areas of government relations and public policy. Mr. Salomon also is a Member of Dow Lohnes where he leads the firm’s lobbying, campaign finance, and congressional ethics practice. From 1978-1980, Mr. Salomon was Deputy Chief Counsel of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the President's principal advisor on telecommunications and information policy immediately before moving to Dow Lohnes. Mr. Salomon held several legal positions at the Federal Communications Commission during the 1970s. From 1972-1975, Mr. Salomon was an associate in the Washington office of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey.

Mr. Salomon has extensive government relations experience and has conducted many congressional and administration lobbying campaigns on issues ranging from telecommunications, financial services, spectrum policy, and the Internet to patent reform, student financial aid, copyright, international trade, and immigration. Most recently, he has been involved in efforts to address the problem of frivolous patent litigation and efforts to stem “naked” short selling of publicly traded securities. These efforts have led to the inclusion of language in the patent reform legislation currently under consideration by Congress, the inclusion of short selling provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, and amendments to the Securities and Exchange Commission rules on short selling.

Mr. Salomon is an honors graduate of both Tufts University (BA), Medford, MA, and The George Washington University School of Law (JD), Washington, DC, where he was a member of the Law Review. His bar memberships include the District of Columbia, Maryland, the Federal Communications Bar Association, and the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Mr. Salomon is a member of the advisory board of the University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property. He is President of the Maryland Soccer Foundation, Inc. which built and operates the Maryland SoccerPlex. Mr. Salomon was Professorial Lecturer on International Telecommunications at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies for several years.

Affiliations

Member - Federal Communications Bar Association

Member - National Association of College and University Attorneys

Board Member - Oklahoma State University Institute for Teaching and Learning Excellence National Advisory Board from 1994-2009

Board Member - University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property