Ronald Maines is a communications and media law attorney with more than four decades of experience representing broadcasters, telecommunications companies, technology enterprises, investors, trade associations, educational institutions, and public-interest organizations in regulatory, transactional, compliance, and appellate matters.

His practice has focused extensively on proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission and federal courts involving broadcast radio and television, wireless communications, broadband services, spectrum policy, media ownership, regulatory compliance, licensing, transactions, and communications-related public policy. He has served as lead counsel in numerous proceedings involving FCC licensing, rulemakings, enforcement matters, spectrum allocations and auctions, facility authorizations, license transfers and assignments, ownership issues, EEO compliance, public inspection file requirements, political broadcasting, retransmission consent, must-carry rights, low-power and translator operations, and other operational and regulatory matters affecting communications licensees.

Ronald has substantial experience advising clients concerning acquisitions, mergers, financings, and strategic transactions involving FCC-regulated entities. He has negotiated and drafted asset purchase agreements, stock purchase agreements, financing arrangements, technology licenses, network and service agreements, tower and infrastructure arrangements, and other complex commercial agreements. He has advised Wall Street investment firms and corporate clients concerning major communications transactions affected by FCC, Department of Justice, and Congressional review.

He has argued numerous federal appellate cases, primarily in the DC Circuit, and has been counsel of record on behalf of amici curiae in more than twenty matters before the Supreme Court involving constitutional, regulatory, media, and public-policy issues. In 1998, he was appointed by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor to represent an indigent litigant in a case before the Court.

Ronald has been a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University's Centre for Public Law, an Associate in Oxford's Programme in Comparative Media Law, and has taught Constitutional Theory at Georgetown University. Ronald’s business experience has been as a founder, principal or executive in several notable media and technology companies. He has been rated preeminent/AV by Martindale-Hubbell for many years.