Nicholas P. Miller

Partner

Nicholas P. Miller is a partner in Best Best & Krieger LLP’s Municipal Law practice group in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Prior to joining the firm in 2011, he was a named partner of Miller & Van Eaton, a nationally recognized telecommunications law firm.

Mr. Miller’s practice focuses on representing local governments in the law and policy governing modern wireline and wireless telecommunications networks, and the legislative aspects of communications law. He represents local governments and joint powers authorities across the nation in the regulation, procurement, deployment and operation of modern telecommunications systems. Mr. Miller is well-known for the many telecommunications transactions he has negotiated on behalf of local governments, including cable television franchises, right-of-way agreements, fiber optic and wireless partnerships, and government owned and operated telecommunications networks. He has worked extensively with the national local government associations, as well as individual communities, before the Federal Communications Commission and the Congress.

Mr. Miller has worked with international multilateral agencies engaged in telecommunications policy advice to developing countries. He represented local governments in lobbying the Cable Act of 1984 and 1992, the AT&T divestiture and the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He represented the national coalition of education groups in the development of the school and library universal service discount program established by the 1996 Act.

Mr. Miller received his law degree and his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Washington where he was a member of the Washington Law Review. Mr. Miller is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association, and an honorary life-time member and 1995 Member of the Year of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors. He is also a member of the International Municipal Lawyers Association which named him Associate Member of the Year for 2008. He served in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam. Mr. Miller was a founding partner of the Washington, D.C. law firm of Miller and Holbrooke.

Education

• University of Washington, J.D.
• University of Washington, B.A.

Bar Admissions

• Washington State (1973)
• District of Columbia (1978)

Court Admissions

• United States Supreme Court
• United States Court of Appeals - 4th, 5th, and 6th Circuits
• United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit

Awards

• Washington, D.C. Top Rated Lawyer in Communications Law, American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell (2013)
• IMLA Associate Member of the Year (2008)
• NATOA, Lifetime Member (2000)
• NATOA, Member of the Year (1995)
• Newmyer Award, Sidwell Friends School (1993)
• McDonald, Hoague & Bayless Scholarship (1973)

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• Co-author (with Holly L. Saurer), "Property Rights, Federalism and the Public Rights-of-Way," 27 Community Media Review 1, Spring 2004
• Co-author (with Frederick E. Ellrod, III), "Property Rights, Federalism, and the Public Rights-Of-Way," 26 Seattle University Law Review 3, Winter 2003
• “Regulation: Reconciling Policy Objectives” published in Implementing Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector, The World Bank, 1994
• "Privatizing the National Telephone Company -- How Do You Do It?," PTC '91 Proceedings, January, 1991
• "Antitrust and Local Government, Perspectives on the “Boulder,” Decision (J. Siena ed. 1982). [Contributed chapter on “Regulation of Cable After Boulder.”]
• "The CTIC Cablebooks," Volume II, a Guide for Local Policy, N. Jesuale, R. Neustadt, N. Miller Ed’s., 1982
• "The Regulatory Status of Leased Channels," 4 COMM/ENT, 1982
• "Regulating Cable Television," 57 Wash. L. Rev. 85 (1981). Reprinted in 3 COMM/ENT L. Rev. 607 (1982), and Communications Law 1982, Vol. 2, Practicing Law Institute, 1982.

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Community Involvement

• Sidwell Friends School Parents Association, Washington, D.C., Vice President, 1991-1994
• President's Council, St. Mary University, Leavenworth, Kansas,1986-1996
• National Council For Families and Television, 1979-1986
• Washington State Society, Washington, D.C., President, 1977-1978

Memberships

• Federal Communications Bar Association
• International Municipal Lawyers Association
• National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors

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Lieutenant, U.S. Navy (June 1966 to August 1970)

Service Awards
Silver Star for gallantry in action
Navy Commendation Medal for Heroism
Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star
Purple Heart, and others