Ex-FCC Comr. Henry Rivera heads a 4-lawyer group leaving Washingt...
Ex-FCC Comr. Henry Rivera heads a 4-lawyer group leaving Washington law firm Vinson & Elkins Fri. to join the Wiley Rein & Fielding (WRF) communications practice. Rivera will become a WRF partner, as will Mark Lipp. Scott Woodworth becomes…
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an assoc.; Edgar Class, of counsel. Lipp and Class also were at the FCC. WRF will be Rivera’s 5th firm since he left the Commission in 1985, and he will become WRF’s 5th ex- commissioner. “Dick [Wiley] and I have talked on and off for years about joining forces and just decided the time was right,” Rivera told us: “It’s a dream come true.” Clients moving to WRF from Vinson & Elkins include Clear Channel, Cumulus Bcstg., Moinet Communications and First Bcstg. A lawyer said Rivera’s joining the predominantly Republican firm will give it better political balance. “That’s the whole communications group at Vinson & Elkins,” the source said.