ABI Webinar to Explore the New Congress

Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET

PHILIP S. CORWIN

Philip S. Corwin is a partner at Butera & Andrews, a Washington, D.C., law and lobbying firm. With nearly 30 years of federal legislative experience, his practice is focused on the dynamically evolving law of electronic commerce and intellectual property, as well as financial services and bankruptcy.

Since entering private practice, Mr. Corwin’s clients have included Advanta, the American Bankers Association, the Commercial Finance Association, the Association of Independent Consumer Credit Counseling Agencies, the Information Technology Association of America, the Internet Commerce Association, FirstPlus Financial Group, First Virtual Holdings, PenOp, Pool.com, MP3.com, CenterSpan Communications, TD Waterhouse and Sharman Networks.
 
Mr. Corwin is an active member of several American Bar Association Committees. He serves as the Washington liaison for the Science and Technology Section and chairman of the Business Law Section’s Committee on Legislation. He has also served as legislative reporter for the Business Law Section's Cyberspace Law Committee, vice-chair of the Financial Services Integration Committee of the Torts and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), and  co-chair of TIPS' Investment, Financial Services and Taxation Committee. He is also an active member of the Banking Law, Consumer Financial Services, Consumer Bankruptcy and Commercial Bankruptcy Committees.

He received his B.A. in government from Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences and his J.D. from Boston College Law School. He is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and Massachusetts, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mr. Corwin has been a guest on the "MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour," "CNN Newsmaker," "CNN Burden of Proof," "CBS This Morning," "CBS Nightwatch," " CNBC Capitol Gains," "CNBC Business Insiders," "C-Span Washington Journal," "Court TV Washington Watch," "The Wall Street Journal Report," "CNET Radio" and other television and radio public affairs and business programs.  Additionally, he has testified before Congress; spoken before legal, banking, technology, digital entertainment and financial services industry audiences; and served as an adviser to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. He has addressed copyright and other legal issues affecting digital media delivery at numerous venues, and discussed technology-related legislative and regulatory initiatives at such forums as Glasser Legalworks’ E-Commerce Law School and the Practicing Law Institute’s Internet Law Institute, as well as at a variety of programs put on by the American Bar Association and District of Columbia Bar. His articles discussing such topics as encryption, and electronic authentication and Internet commerce, have appeared in Future Banker and Jurimetrics.  Additional writings on financial services and bankruptcy matters appeared in Legal Times, American Banker, Banking Expansion Reporter, Banking Policy Report,  Best's Review, Southern Banker, ABA Banking Journal, National Underwriter, Banks in Insurance Report, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, American Bankruptcy Institute Newsletter, Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, and Independent Banker.

Previously, Mr. Corwin served as director and counsel of Operations, Retail Banking and Risk Management for the American Bankers Association (ABA).  He directed ABA’s bankruptcy reform effort, and was also responsible for overseeing ABA's federal legislative and regulatory efforts in such areas as wholesale and retail payments systems, bankcards, consumer disclosure and compliance, coinage, bank insurance activities, money laundering, student lending and environmental liability.  He began his ABA service as senior federal legislative counsel, focusind on legislative drafting and analysis as well as policy development.

From 1981-85 Mr. Corwin served as legislative counsel to the Independent Bankers Association of America, and from 1976-81 he held professional staff positions at the U.S. Senate.