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Raymond Gifford is head of the Communications, Internet and Intellectual Property practice area at Kamlet Shepherd. He is also an adjunct fellow with the Silicon Flatirons, a center for law, technology, and entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado. He was most recently president of The Progress and Freedom Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that focuses on studying the digital revolution and its effects on law and public policy. From 1999-2003, Mr. Gifford served as chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. Before that, he served as First Assistant Attorney General in the Regulatory Law Section under then-Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton. His expertise lies in public utilities law, principally telecommunications and energy. In addition, his law and policy work focuses on antitrust, competition policy and intellectual property law.
Gifford studied philosophy , earning a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland and earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
