Attorney Francis Perkins, Meyner and Landis LLP, Newark, New Jersey

Francis R. Perkins
Newark, New Jersey

Areas of Practice:: Cable Communications; Telecommunications; Public Utilities; Administrative Law; Regulatory Services

Bar Admissions:: New Jersey, 1972; U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1971; U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court, 1975

Education:: New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1977
LL.M. in Trade Regulation; Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey, 1971
J.D.; Newark College of Engineering, Newark, NJ, USA, 1962
B.S.C.E.
Major: Civil Engineering

Representative Cases:: NYT Cable TV v. Homestead at Mansfield, Inc., 111 N.J. 21 (N.J. 1988); Matter of Certain Sections of the Uniform Administrative Procedural Rules, 90 N.J. 85 (N.J. 1982); Clear Television Cable Corp. v. Board of Public Utility Comrs., 85 N.J. 30 (N.J. 1981); NYT Cable TV v. Homestead at Mansfield, Inc., 214 N.J.Super. 148 (N.J.Super. 1986); Petition of Elizabethtown Water Co., 205 N.J.Super. 528 (N.J.Super. 1985); Zoning Bd. of Adjustment of Sparta Tp. v. Service Elec. Cable Television of New Jersey, Inc., 198 N.J.Super. 370 (N.J.Super. 1985); Clear Television Cable Corp. v. Board of Public Utility Comrs., 162 N.J.Super. 84 (N.J.Super. 1978); In re Cable Television, 132 N.J.Super. 45 (N.J.Super. 1974); Bayshore Sewerage Co. v. Dept. of Environmental Protection, 131 N.J.Super. 37 (N.J.Super. 1974); Direct Satellite Communications, Inc. v. Board of Public Utilities, 615 F.Supp. 1558 (D.N.J. 1985)

Representative Clients:: Adelphia Cable Communications Corp.; AT&T Broadband; New Jersey Cable Telecommunications Association

Professional Associations and Memberships:: Walter Kaitz Foundation, 1984 - Present; Trustee; Cable Television Pioneers of America, 1989 - Present; Member; New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, Joint Committee to Review the Rules and Regulations, 1978; Member, Standing Committee; New Jersey Supreme Court District Ethics Committee (District V.A.), 1986 - 1989; Member; Governor's Committee on Administrative Law, 1983 - 1984; Member; Essex County Bar Association; Member; New Jersey State Bar Association, 1975 - 1976; Chairman, Administrative Conference; New Jersey State Bar Association, 1980 - 1981; Chairman, Administrative Conference; New Jersey State Bar Association, 1978-1983, 1984; Member, Board of Consultors; New Jersey State Bar Association, 1981, 1982; Secretary

Past Employment Positions:: Holzapfel Perkins & Kelly, Cranford, NJ, 1972 - 1983; LeBoeuf, Lamb, Lerby & MacRae, Newark, NJ, 1983 - 1989; Professional Engineer, New Jersey, 1967; Division of Engineering, New Jersey Department of Public Utilities, Assistant Director, 1969 - 1971; U.S. Army, Judge Advocate General's Corps., Lt. Col. (Retired)