Ian D. Volner
Ian focuses his practice of law on direct marketing, mass media, and postal issues.
Ian has litigated before federal and state courts, the FCC, the FTC and the Postal Regulatory Commission on the full range of direct marketing and communications issues, resulting in savings of millions of dollars annually. He has testified before Congressional committees on numerous occasions on behalf of clients and actively participated in the drafting of a number of major legislative initiatives at both the federal and state level. He and his colleagues regularly provide advice and counsel in transactional and regulatory compliance matters to direct marketers, mass media companies, and other consumer service and consumer product enterprises.
Related Practices
- Communications
- Appellate Litigation
- Class Action Defense
- Litigation
- Postal Law
- Regulatory
- Advertising and Marketing Litigation
- Banking and Financial Services Regulatory
- Applications for New Charters, Deposit Insurance, and Other Regulator Consents
- Electronic and Mobile Banking
- Innovation in Products and Services
- Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets and Private Equity
- Regulation of Banks, Savings Associations, and Bank, Thrift and Financial Holding Companies
- Resolution of Depository Institutions
- Supervision of Operations
- US Supervision of International and Foreign Banking
- Financial Services Investigations and Enforcement
- Conducting and Responding to Investigations
- Enforcement
Experience
Representative Matters
In recent years, Ian's practice has paralleled the active pace of the convergence of marketing and communications as technology has opened up new vistas of information dissemination. At the same time, the information age has precipitated changes in the role of government and the scope and nature of regulation in all aspects of advertising, marketing, mass media and communications. Most recently, Ian has been a key architect in the promulgation of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, the culmination of a decade of effort to revamp the United States Postal Service and assure its continued viability as a communications channel in the 21st century. He has participated in virtually all major rulemaking proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission on matters governing privacy, telemarketing and e-mail marketing, and has successfully defended these industries in opposition to regulatory initiatives that would severely and unnecessarily impair the efficacy of these channels of communication.
Insights
Credentials
Education
- L.L.B. (J.D.) Columbia University School of Law 1965
- B.A. Colgate University 1962
- Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- New York
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
Professional Memberships and Activities
- Member, District of Columbia Bar Association
- Member, America Bar Association
- Member, New York State Bar Association
- Member, Federal Communications Bar Association
- Adjunct Professor of Mass Media, University of Maryland
- Adjunct Professor of Law, Catholic University
- Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School
Recognition
Ian has been recognized by various trade organizations in the areas of mass media, direct marketing, and telecommunications.
- Who’s Who in the United States
- Martindale-Hubbell, AV® Peer Review Rated