Representative Experience
Experienced in all areas of communications practice including litigation, regulation, transactions, and policy, specializing in cable television and wireless; experienced in most areas of cable law and regulation with particular expertise in disputes with broadcasters concerning carriage and disputes with utilities concerning pole attachments; experienced in wireless law and regulation with a focus on wireless spectrum regulation

Represented cable networks in rulemaking proceeding concerning mandatory carriage of digital and analog broadcast signals, which threatened to force networks off of cable systems

Represented cable operators before the FCC and state and federal courts in pole attachment rate disputes with potential industry-wide impact of several hundred million dollars annually

Represented cable operator in rulemaking, threatening recovery of investment in last-mile network deployments to apartment buildings

Represented wireless antenna system provider in successfully opposing new FCC regulations, which would have exposed the industry to hundreds of millions of dollars in compliance costs

Represented wireless providers in spectrum auctions and acquisitions and advised wireless providers on spectrum use and relocation matters

Prior Experience
Associate, Cole, Raywid & Braverman LLP

Associate, Richard S. Becker & Associates Chtd.

Publications and Presentations
Co-author, "Communications Law Developments," American Bar Association Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, 2007

Co-author, "FCC Proposes Vast Changes to the Federal Regulatory Scheme Governing Cable, Broadband and Telecommunications Pole Attachment Rates, Terms and Conditions," DWT Advisory Bulletin, November 2007

Co-author, "FCC Adopts Post-Digital Transition 'Must-Carry' Rules, Extends Ban on Exclusive Programming Contracts, and Opens Inquiry Into 'Tying' Agreements," DWT Advisory Bulletin, October 2007

Co-author, "FCC Sets Key Dates For 700 MHz Spectrum Auction," DWT Advisory Bulletin, September 2007

Moderator, “Internet, Telephony and the Law,” Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, October 2006

Moderator, “Communications Law and the Internet: Content, Carriage and Access in the Digital Age,” Federal Communications Bar Association, September 2006

Memberships and Activities
Maryland State Bar

District of Columbia Bar

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Federal Communications Bar Association; Co-Chair, Young Lawyers Committee

Education
J.D., Georgetown University

B.A., Double major in Philosophy and Rhetoric, University of Pittsburgh