Fernando has a diverse practice advising clients and litigating in the high technology, communications, and health care fields. He provides antitrust counseling with respect to network formation, joint ventures, mergers, and strategic planning, and represents clients before state and federal enforcement agencies and courts. He represents clients in a broad range of matters before the Federal Communications Commission, and counsels in the digital media on new and emerging copyright matters and litigates in the area of musical performance and sound recording rights on the Internet. He has extensive experience advising clients on the Digital Performance Rights Act of 1995 and the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998.

Fernando also serves as general counsel to the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Network to End Domestic Violence Fund.

Prior to attending law school, Fernando was a social worker and spent two years as a health care analyst in the Massachusetts Governor's Budget Bureau. He was born in Uruguay and speaks Spanish fluently.

Fernando is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. He has served as a member of the ABA Young Lawyers' Division Ethics and Professionalism Planning Committee. He received an A.B., cum laude, in government from Harvard College (1988), and a J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University (1994), where he was Notes and Comment Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.

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