Areas of Practice
Communications Law – Cable Television, Programming/Content; Competing Delivery Technologies (Satellite; Telco; Wireless; Internet); Telecommunications (Voice/Data); Pole Attachments; Litigation

Representative Experience
More than 25 years of regulatory and litigation experience representing the interests of franchised cable television companies, related affiliates, state and national cable associations, and regional and national program networks in proceedings before state and federal courts, the FCC, and state public service commissions

Handled directly or substantially involved in most of the major state and national communications litigation since 1984

Litigation and related matters under the Communications Act and Fifth Amendment

Drafted, negotiated, and litigated commercial agreements and statutory provisions relating to program distribution, program access, copyright and program licensing, telecommunications franchising, rights-of-way disputes, OVS, and telco, electric and municipal/cooperative competitive video deployment

Litigated theft of service proceedings, late fee defenses, signal carriage disputes, franchise renewals and transfers, and arbitration of copyright licensing disputes; federal preemption cases under Section 253 of the 1996 Act; and pole attachment hearings, regulatory proceedings, and appeals

Defended constitutional challenges to the 1996 revisions to Pole Attachment Act at the FCC and in the federal court of appeals

Counseled international cable operators with regard to franchise renewals and transfers, signal carriage, and "forced access" to broadband plant

Prior Experience
Cole, Raywid & Braverman LLP, Associate,
1979-1983; Partner, 1984-2006

Publications and Presentations
Cable Programming Regulation Session: Congress Extends And Amends Compulsory Copyright License For Satellite Delivered Superstations And Distant Network Stations ("SHVERA") - Cable Television Law 2005: Competition in Video, Internet & Telephony, Practising Law Institute, New York, NY

Program Access: Perspectives on Legislative and Regulatory Issues Regarding the Ability of Companies to Obtain Access to Third Party Programming – Incumbent Perspective, IPTV & The Evolution of Television – LSI, Seattle, WA, 2006

Memberships and Activities
District of Columbia Bar

Federal Communications Bar Association

American Bar Association

United States District Court for the District of Columbia; United States District Court for the E.D. Wisconsin

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Federal Circuits

United States Supreme Court

Legal Advisory Committee of the National Capital Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Board of Directors, WVSA Arts Connection

Education
J.D., Boston University, 1979

B.A. in Economics, with Distinction, University of Virginia, 1975