Representative Experience
Digital rights management, telecommunications convergence, and competition policy

Represents cable service providers and competitive telecommunications carriers on regulatory and contract matters before the Federal Communications Commission, state public service commissions, and state and federal courts

Specializes in next-generation cable architecture issues, including the "plug-and-play" negotiations between the cable industry and the consumer electronics and IT industries, and the development and licensing of downloadable conditional access security

Obtained waivers for nine cable operators from the FCC's ban on the deployment of integrated set-top boxes

Represents competitive local exchange, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and broadband service providers on a wide range of telecommunications issues, including negotiation and arbitration of interconnection agreements, compliance with telecommunications privacy (CPNI) rules, intercarrier compensation, universal service contribution methodologies, obtaining universal service funding for service in high-cost areas, complex carrier-to-carrier billing disputes, and broadband regulation and deployment

Won multi-million dollar judgments against large incumbent carriers in arbitrations before state public service commissions and in AAA commercial arbitration

Prior Experience
Partner, Cole, Raywid & Braverman LLP,
2005-2006

Associate, Swidler Berlin, 1998-2005

Law clerk, Honorable Rudi M. Brewster, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, 1997-1998

Memberships and Activities
District of Columbia Bar

State Bar of California

American Bar Association

Federal Communications Bar Association

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

Education
J.D., Stanford Law School, 1997

B.A. in Political Science, Duke University, 1994