After graduation from law school, Kerry was an associate with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington, D.C. (1979–1982) and served as law clerk to U.S. Senior Circuit Judge Elbert Tuttle (1978–1979), former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (now the Eleventh Circuit). He was an Adjunct Professor of Telecommunications Law at Suffolk University Law School and has written on First Amendment and cable television issues from 1997 to 2002. From 1983 to 2009 he was an associate and partner with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo. In 1976 he was an intern for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Consumer Affairs. He was a summer associate with Ropes & Gray in 1977. In 1982 he served as campaign director for John Kerry for Lieutenant Governor.