Tim Simeone is co-chair of HWG’s Issues and Appeals practice and also works extensively with the firm’s Telecom, Telecommunications Litigation, and Legal Ethics groups. He served as a law clerk for United States Supreme Court Justice David Souter and D.C. Circuit Judge Patricia Wald.

Tim has argued cases and motions before the United States Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit, other federal and state courts of appeals, federal district courts, the U.S. Court of Claims, and bar disciplinary tribunals. Tim’s extensive advocacy before the FCC, like his litigation work, draws on his experience as an appellate advocate to present complex issues as clearly and simply as possible.

Tim’s most noteworthy representations include:

• Obtaining a grant of certiorari and then winning a 9-0 decision in the first major federal abstention case in the United States Supreme Court in over twenty years;
• Representing, with other HWG team members, a national telecommunications company before the FCC and in the federal courts of appeals for well over a decade;
• Providing written and oral advocacy on behalf of media clients and associations before the FCC and particularly OGC;
• Obtaining vacatur and a new trial in a high-profile appeal of a first-degree murder conviction in the D.C. Circuit;
• Successfully defending attorneys in disbarment appeals before the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility and the D.C. Court of Appeals.

Tim’s litigation experience includes briefing and arguing both procedural and dispositive motions before a wide variety of trial tribunals. He has also written and presented down-to-earth mediation statements in complex commercial matters.

Tim advises lawyers and law firms on the Rules of Professional Conduct and defends lawyers in disciplinary matters. He has published and lectured on topics including constitutional law, administrative law, trial and appellate litigation issues, and legal ethics.