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Sullivan & Worcester Forms Telecommunications PracticePress Release, November 26, 2007New lawyers bring impressive telecommunications regulatory, public policy, and transactional experienceMonday, November 26, 2007, Washington D.C. --- Sullivan & Worcester LLP announced today that it has formed a new Telecommunications Practice with the addition of telecommunications industry veterans, Elise Dieterich and Kathy Cooper. The new Telecommunications Practice further strengthens the firm’s regulated industries experience, which includes its leading Energy and Environmental & Natural Resources Practices. Both Dieterich and Cooper focus on the legal and regulatory issues involved in telecom growth opportunities, such as fiber optics and triple play broadband services. Elise Dieterich joins the firm as partner and will lead the Telecommunications Practice. She has extensive experience in the regulation of broadband services with a special emphasis on advising new market entrants. She represents one of the nation’s largest facilities-based competitive providers of bundled cable, high-speed Internet and phone services — the so-called “triple play” — on franchising, competition policy, program access and a range of other legal and policy issues. Elise sees great synergies between her practice and the firm’s Energy and Environmental & Natural Resources Practices: “We can be helpful to the firm’s utility clients in identifying and implementing the opportunities to monetize their existing rights-of-way and fiber optic capacity through pole attachment and indefeasible right to use agreements, leases, broadband over power lines (“BPL”), and other revenue-generating arrangements with communications service providers.” Kathy Cooper joins the firm as Counsel, with years of experience providing clients with advice on matters of regulatory law at the federal, state, and local level, covering a variety of services including telecommunications, Internet, video, Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”), microwave, and media. Cooper has counseled dozens of companies on market entry strategies, network access and operational issues, and federal and state regulatory requirements related to financing, mergers and acquisitions, asset transfers, and investments. Also joining the Telecommunications Practice is consultant Scott Burnside, a former industry executive with major telephone and broadband companies, who will advise clients in areas including local, state and federal legislative and regulatory policy issues, competitive market issues affecting telecom, broadband and video service providers, and project management for unique- and company-specific projects. ******** About Sullivan & Worcester’s Telecommunications Practice About Sullivan & Worcester LLP Contacts:
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