Representative Experience
Represents telecommunications, cable and VoIP providers in contested proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission, state public utility commissions, and in courts around the country

Conceived the legal strategy culminating in a national VoIP provider’s successful campaign to preempt state regulators from imposing state telecom regulation on provider’s VoIP service, and drafted the petition that led to the FCC’s definitive preemption ruling

Represented an international reseller in its successful breach of contract action against a major long-distance carrier, one of the first such challenges in the “detariffed” long-distance environment (Frontline Comm. Int’l v. Sprint Comm. Co., 178 F.Supp.2d 432 (SDNY 2001))

Negotiated more than 50 carrier-to-carrier interconnection agreements and served as first chair trial counsel in a dozen interconnection arbitration proceedings under the Telecommunications Act of 1996

Represent carriers in proceedings before the FCC Enforcement Bureau in payphone compensation, universal service, and other disputed matters

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

Associate, Swidler Berlin, LLP, 2000-2005

Associate, Sidley & Austin, 1996-2000

Law clerk, Hon. Juan M. Perez-Gimenez of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, 1995-1996

Publications and Presentations
“APCC’s Dial-Around Mess,” The Prepaid Press, Dec. 15, 2005

“Communications Law Developments,” Chapter in Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, 2005-2006 (American Bar Association)

Memberships and Activities
District of Columbia Bar

American Bar Association

• Chair, Communications Law Committee, Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice

Education
J.D., cum laude, University of Wisconsin Law School, 1995

• Law Review
  
• Moot Court

B.A. in English Literature, Northwestern University, 1986