Telecom Law Blog

Greg, a partner in DWT's Seattle, Washington office, represents telecommunications clients before various state agencies, including the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission and the Utah Public Service Commission, and before state and federal courts on the following types of cases: arbitration and appeal of interconnection agreements; enforcement of interconnection agreements; generic costing and pricing proceedings; complaints against incumbent local telephone companies for violations of state and federal telecommunications laws; and agency rulemakings. He also negotiates interconnection, pole attachment, and other agreements under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 on behalf of competing local exchange companies and wireless carriers.

Randy is a partner in DWT's Washington, D.C. office. For the last 25 years, as in-house counsel and in private practice, he has advised communications companies on important corporate, regulatory and legislative developments. During his communications career, Randy worked with AT&T in Washington, D.C. and New York on domestic and international corporate, regulatory and legislative matters. He later joined the legal department of ITT where he represented the company's domestic and foreign communications subsidiaries, including one of the first long distance telephone companies in the United States. Prior to joining DWT, Randy was the Executive Vice-President and Chief Legal Officer of Prism Communications, Inc. as well as member of its Office of the President, where, among other things, he was charged with implementing the construction of a nationwide, integrated voice and broadband data network.

John is a partner in DWT's Washington, D.C. office and has more than 25 years of regulatory and litigation experience representing the interests of franchised cable television companies, related Internet and telephony affiliates, and state and national cable associations, in proceedings before state and federal courts, the FCC, and state public service commissions. He has been substantially involved in most of the major state and national communications litigation since 1984 and has counseled clients extensively on state and federal privacy compliance, including the DMCA, wiretap laws and ECPA, and drafted acceptable use and privacy policies, safeguards, and audit programs, and responded to law enforcement and civil parties’ legal process under state and federal privacy and security laws.

Jim is Of Counsel in DWT's Washington, D.C. office. For the past 22 years, as an attorney, industry association leader and telecommunications company executive, he has been a nationally recognized leader in telecommunications law and policy. Prior to joining Davis Wright in 2002, he held the position of Vice President, Law and Public Policy of Excel Communications, Inc., the fifth largest long distance telecommunications company in North America, with approximately two million customers. Jim headed Excel's Washington public policy office, supervised the company's Regulatory Affairs department, and served as the company's chief public policy spokesman and strategist.

Suzanne is a partner in DWT's San Francisco office. She has over 15 years of communications law experience, including: representation of telecommunications clients before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), state public utility commissions (including the California PUC), and in state and federal courts; advising clients on a broad range of regulatory and legal issues such as numbering, interconnection, service quality, consumer protection, regulatory status, privacy, competitive entry, construction of facilities, universal service, mergers and acquisitions, and certification/licensing; and developing public policy positions and legislative strategy on a number of telecommunications issues such as the use of wireless phones while driving and radio frequency (RF) health and safety issues.

Mark is a partner in DWT's Portland office and Chairs the firm's Telecommunications Practice Group. He has extensive experience representing telecommunications clients in regulatory and transactional matters throughout the Western Region, including Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico and the FCC. Mark represents the interests of competitive local exchange carriers, wireless carriers, data services providers, resellers, Internet service providers, cable companies, and large users of telecommunications services.

Dan, a partner in DWT's Seattle, Washington office, is a leading communications attorney who has been involved in many of the major communications and media issues in the country for over 20 years. His experience includes: negotiating agreements regarding the production or distribution of programming; all phases of media and communications law, with particular emphasis on defamation and privacy litigation; counseling on program content issues; and telecommunications issues for interexchange and cellular carriers, broadcast, and pay programming and cable television. He has authored appellate briefs in major media matters, and has been involved in a number of major cases concerning defamation, access and other media issues.