Representative Experience
Negotiating interconnection, pole attachment, and other communications agreements under federal and state law on behalf of competing local exchange companies and wireless carriers

Negotiating telecommunications service and related agreements on behalf of large business customers

Representing telecommunications clients before state public utility commissions, the Federal Communications Commission, and state and federal courts on the following types of cases:

• Arbitration and appeal of interconnection agreements
• Enforcement of interconnection agreements
• Rate proceedings
• Complaints against incumbent local telephone companies for violations of state and federal telecommunications laws
• Agency rulemakings

Prior Experience
Judicial clerk for the Honorable Robert Boochever on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Memberships and Activities
Washington State Bar Association

U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. Supreme Court Bars

Federal Communications Bar Association, Pacific Northwest Chapter past Co-Chair

Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Communications Law by Woodward/White

Education
J.D., UCLA School of Law, 1989

• Graduated tenth in class
  
• Order of the Coif
  
• Chief Comments Editor, UCLA Law Review

B.F.A. in Theatre, with honors, University of Tulsa, 1978