Devendra “Dave” Kumar

Partner, Goldberg, Godles, Wiener & Wright

Dave Kumar is a Partner at Goldberg, Godles, Wiener & Wright, a boutique law firm focused on telecommunications law and policy located in Washington, D.C. Mr. Kumar represents clients that span a broad range of the communications industry; however, his main focus is on representing Internet companies in a range of regulatory, policy, and compliance issues.

Prior to joining G2W2, Mr. Kumar was a Visiting Professor of Law at the National Law School of India in Bangalore, India, where he taught courses on telecommunications law and policy and competition law. Previously, he was an associate in the communications, information technology, and intellectual property practice groups at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. Outside of work, Mr. Kumar serves on the board of the Duke Club of Washington, and in 2006 and 2007, served on the board of the South Asian Bar Association of Washington, D.C. Mr. Kumar is also the co-founder and a national director of South Asians for Opportunity (formerly South Asians for Obama), and received the 2009 India Abroad Gopal Raju Award for Community Service for his work relating to SAFO.

Mr. Kumar is a graduate of Harvard Law School, cum laude, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. Prior to law school, Mr. Kumar attended Duke University, where he received a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering, and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), where he received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering. Mr. Kumar also worked as a Patent Examiner at the United States Patent & Trademark Office, where he examined patent applications in the field of telephonic communications.