Legal Information

FAB Attorneys

Matt Leibowitz

Attorney

Matt Leibowitz, founder and managing partner of Leibowitz & Associates, P.A., has served as counsel to FAB since 1981 and is a former associate member of FAB’s Board of Directors.

Mr. Leibowitz represented FAB in the contentious “radio war” with Cuba and subsequent international negotiations. In addition to his work for FAB, he has successfully represented clients in radio, television, cable, and wireless matters.

In the early 1980’s, Mr. Leibowitz served as counsel to Florida Governor Bob Graham’s Task Force on Cable Television. He has also represented more than 70 local franchise authorities in complex renewal and transfer cases, telecommunications ordinances and wireless tower siting ordinances.

More recently, Mr. Leibowitz founded and is president and chief executive officer of Communications Dispute Resolutions, LLC, the first and only alternative dispute resolution group created and operated exclusively for the communications and telecommunications industry.

Mr. Leibowitz has played a major role in protecting local government’s interests in Tallahassee on communications issues and has authored several books and articles on all facets of the communications industry.

Reginald Garcia

Attorney

Reggie Garcia, partner of Law Firm of Reginald R. Garcia, P.A., has served as legal counsel and legislative consultant to FAB since 1994.

In 2004, Mr. Garcia helped write Florida’s new “Pirate Radio” law and now assists with its enforcement as FAB’s principal liaison to the FCC, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and Florida’s sheriffs and state attorneys. Mr. Garcia has spoken at numerous FAB conventions on legislative and regulatory issues including pirate radio, legal advertising, the advertising services tax, game promotion, and GATT-Spectrum tax.

In addition, Mr. Garcia has successfully represented clients in executive clemency cases before two governors and the Florida Cabinet. He is also an arbitrator in Florida property and commercial insurance rate-filing cases and on securities matters.

Mr. Garcia is the chairman of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tallahassee scholarship program and a member of the Florida Consumer Council. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida College of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the University of Florida, where he was president of Florida Blue Key and a member of the U.F. Hall of Fame.

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