Travis LeBlanc

Travis LeBlanc is a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP in Washington, D.C. and Palo Alto, California. He is a leading authority on consumer protection, cybersecurity, privacy, telecommunications, and the regulation of emerging and disruptive technologies.

Until January 2017, he was the former Chief of the Bureau of Enforcement at the Federal Communications Commission where he led the Commission’s largest organizational unit, including its 24 field offices around the country. At the FCC, he spearheaded hundreds of enforcement actions involving consumer protection, competition, compliance, and fraud, waste, and abuse.

Prior to joining the FCC, Mr LeBlanc served as Special Assistant Attorney General of California and a senior advisor to Attorney General Kamala D Harris. In this capacity, he oversaw the California Department of Justice’s operations and activities involving complex litigation, legislation, and policy matters such as technology regulation, telecommunications, high-tech crime, cybersecurity, privacy, intellectual property, antitrust, and health care. He established California’s first high-tech crime and privacy enforcement units. He also secured agreements with leading technology companies to protect consumer privacy, promote online safety, and respect intellectual property rights.

Mr LeBlanc previously served in the Obama Administration as an attorney in the US Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, which advises the President, Attorney General, and general counsels of executive branch agencies on the constitutionality and legality of the programmes and activities of the United States government. He has worked as an attorney at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, DC and Keker & Van Nest LLP in San Francisco. From 2012-2014, Mr LeBlanc was an Appellate Lawyer Representative to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and in 2012, he was selected as Columbia Law School’s Visitor from Government Practice. He clerked for the Hon Stephen Reinhardt on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

He has an AB from Princeton University, an MPA from the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a JD from Yale Law School, and an LLM. in International Law from the University of Cambridge. He is an Affiliated Scholar at the University of California Hastings College of the Law and a member of the American Law Institute.