Title:  Partner
Employer:  Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby, LLP

What I'm Best Known For (in the Telecom World):

Wireless issues impacting the enterprise, principally, negotiating enterprise wireless deals.

Other Primary Areas of Expertise:

Negotiating wireline agreements; handling disputes with carriers; representation of large users and IT companies in FCC and PUC proceedings; and counseling clients on privacy, commercial email and telemarketing issues.

Summary of Professional Background:

22 years practicing law, including some litigation, some corporate work, some administrative work and a lot of commercial transactions.  Almost 20 years of experience with wireless transactions.

Prediction on the Future of Telecom & Telecom Managers:

With any luck, emerging technologies and a move toward IP-based communications will shake up the status quo and create opportunities for new market entrants. Telecom managers who maintain a healthy arm’s-length relationship with their carriers will do better than those who assume the carriers are their friends and will always act in their customers’ best interests.

Weirdest Thing People Usually Don't Know about Me:

I hate cheese and have never eaten a PB & J sandwich.

When I'm not talking or doing something in relation to telecom, I'm usually...

Trying to make it as a record producer. 

Book and author I'm currently reading:

Dan Hornsby, High Fidelity

CD currently or most recently in my car stereo:

Julia Nixon, Keepin’ On Track  (I executive produced it and it’s on my label, Double Dawg Records.)

The stupidest thing I've ever seen anyone do or say in relation to a phone:

(From an ILEC to a major enterprise customer): “We don’t have to negotiate rates and terms for that service; it’s a monopoly product.”