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PHILIP S. SHAPIRO
Secured municipal and state approvals in New York and New England for AT&T’s acquisition of the cable television franchises of TCI (1999) and MediaOne (2000) and represented AT&T in proceedings to transfer AT&T’s New York cable television franchises to Cablevision Systems Corp. (2001).
Organized AT&T’s task force for the mass-migration to AT&T of customers of New York CLECs that ceased operations (2001-2002).
1995 to 1997: Counsel, Cable Television and Telecommunications Association of New York, Inc.
Advised and represented a cable television trade association regarding regulatory, judicial, and legislative matters on substantive issues, such as franchise obligations, building access, taxation, and rights-of-way, and provided in-house counsel regarding corporate legal matters.
Participated in several proceedings, including Pole Attachment Issues (NY PSC 1997) (won pole attachment rate formula changes and interim rate freeze which saved the cable television industry and its telecommunications affiliates over $3 million by 2001 and well over $4 million per year thereafter).
Represented the cable television industry on the New York State Telecommunications Tax Advisory Panel (1996-1997) which, among other things, considered harmonizing the different tax structures applicable to the telephony and cable television businesses.
1980 to 1995: Utility Intervenor Attorney/Telecommunications Counsel, NYS Consumer Protection Board
Advised and represented a state agency in complex administrative litigation, negotiations, and judicial appeals concerning New York's regulated telephone companies and advised agency counsel regarding State and Federal telecommunications legislation.
Served as agency’s lead counsel in all major State rate and rulemaking proceedings affecting New York Telephone Company (now Verizon New York Inc.), including:
Served as a staff member on the Governor's Hurricane Gloria Task Force (1985); and represented agency on the Governor's Telecommunications Exchange (1993).
1976 to 1980: Assistant People’s Counsel, People's Counsel to the Maryland Public Service Commission
Advised and represented a state agency in complex administrative litigation and judicial appeals concerning Maryland's gas, electric, telephone, and water utilities and bus, taxicab, and ferryboat common carriers, including major gas and electric rate cases, fuel rate adjustment proceedings, and investigations of electric demand forecasting and construction planning. Also appeared in U.S. v. Maryland (D. Md. 1979) (successfully opposed claim that State environmental surcharge in electric rates constituted an unlawful tax upon the Federal government).
PRIVATE LAW PRACTICE AND OTHER EXPERIENCE:
Law-Related Experience: Associate Attorney, Roland, Fogel, Koblenz, and Carr, Albany, New York (March 1990) (practiced telecommunications and corporate law); Consultant, Delaware Public Advocate (Part-Time, 1981) (assisted in the preparation of the Public Advocate’s direct case in Diamond State Telephone Company (DE PSC 1981)); Sole Practitioner (Part-Time, 1976-1980), Baltimore, Maryland (practiced real property, small business, estate, and unemployment insurance law); Pre-Trial Release Investigator, Pre-Trial Release Program, Supreme Bench of City of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland (1973-1974) (testified at bail review and habeas corpus hearings concerning the release of indigent criminal defendants on their own recognizance, based upon jailhouse interviews and research)
Other Business Experience: Developed, owned, and/or managed various rental real estate properties; developed and marketed novelty item; imported and marketed Lithuanian clay houses; applied unsuccessfully for two patents (film labeling and children’s teaching device); assisted in the successful patent application for an improvement in the forwarding of information from cellular telephone messages.
Other Work Experience: Substitute Teacher, Northwestern Senior High School, Baltimore City School District, Baltimore, Maryland (taught history and social studies to high school seniors on a full-time, temporary basis).
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
National Association Of State Utility Consumer Advocates, Co-Founder (1979), Member, Executive and By-Laws Committees (1979-1981), Member, Telecommunications Committee (1985-1995); New York State Bar Association, Member, Committee on Public Utility Law (1995-2002); The Florida Bar, Budget Committee (1984-1985); Maryland State Bar Association, Member, Section On Administrative Law, Committee On Administrative Procedures Act and Committee On Agency Accountability And Responsiveness (1976-1980)
PHILIP S. SHAPIRO
General Attorney, AT&T Corp.
BAR ADMISSIONS:
Admitted to Practice Law in New York, California, Florida, Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia
Admitted to Practice Before the U.S. Supreme Court and Various Federal Circuit and District Courts
PRIMARY LEGAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
1997 to Present: General Attorney, AT&T Corp.
Advise and represent the operating companies of AT&T Corp. (AT&T) regarding regulatory and legislative matters in New York and New England (1997-2002) and in the mid-Atlantic states (2003-present).
Participated in numerous telecommunications regulatory proceedings, including:
Served as AT&T’s liaison to the New York State government in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, providing twice-daily detailed recovery status reports.Arbitration of AT&T’s Interconnection Agreement with Verizon of Maryland (MD PSC 2004) (won key rulings on foreign exchange traffic inter-carrier compensation and on the wholesale rates charged for special access used to provide toll access); Arbitration of AT&T’s Interconnection Agreement with Verizon of New Jersey (NJ BPU 2003) (won key rulings on foreign exchange traffic inter-carrier compensation and on the wholesale rates charged for special access used to provide toll access); Verizon Special Services Investigation (NY PSC 2001) (won order that strengthened rules governing ILEC’s wholesale provisioning of special services); Extended Area Service Calling Between Independent and Competitive Local Exchange Companies (NY PSC 2000-2001) (secured order barring independent telephone companies (ICOs) from blocking their customers’ local calls to CLEC customers or re-routing such calls to toll trunks; assisted in ICO-AT&T traffic exchange agreement negotiations); ACC Chatline Blocking Obligations (NY PSC 1999) (defense of AT&T subsidiary ACC in show cause proceeding seeking tens of millions of dollars in proposed penalties for alleged violations of State rules requiring that chatlines only be provided on subscriber-blockable lines resulted in settlement in which no fines were levied and adverse publicity was avoided); and Slamming Complaints Against AT&T (NJ BPU 2005) (defense of AT&T in proceeding seeking more than one million dollars in penalties for alleged unlawful practices in acquiring new subscribers resulted in a settlement for less than one fifth of the demanded amount and adverse publicity was minimized).
Secured municipal and state approvals in New York and New England for AT&T’s acquisition of the cable television franchises of TCI (1999) and MediaOne (2000) and represented AT&T in proceedings to transfer AT&T’s New York cable television franchises to Cablevision Systems Corp. (2001).
Organized AT&T’s task force for the mass-migration to AT&T of customers of New York CLECs that ceased operations (2001-2002).
1995 to 1997: Counsel, Cable Television and Telecommunications Association of New York, Inc.
Advised and represented a cable television trade association regarding regulatory, judicial, and legislative matters on substantive issues, such as franchise obligations, building access, taxation, and rights-of-way, and provided in-house counsel regarding corporate legal matters.
Participated in several proceedings, including Pole Attachment Issues (NY PSC 1997) (won pole attachment rate formula changes and interim rate freeze which saved the cable television industry and its telecommunications affiliates over $3 million by 2001 and well over $4 million per year thereafter).
Represented the cable television industry on the New York State Telecommunications Tax Advisory Panel (1996-1997) which, among other things, considered harmonizing the different tax structures applicable to the telephony and cable television businesses.
1980 to 1995: Utility Intervenor Attorney/Telecommunications Counsel, NYS Consumer Protection Board
Advised and represented a state agency in complex administrative litigation, negotiations, and judicial appeals concerning New York's regulated telephone companies and advised agency counsel regarding State and Federal telecommunications legislation.
Served as agency’s lead counsel in all major State rate and rulemaking proceedings affecting New York Telephone Company (now Verizon New York Inc.), including:
Appeared in U.S. v. Western Electric Co. (LATA Boundaries) (D.D.C. 1983) (successfully advocated the creation of the Poughkeepsie LATA);Intrastate Toll Markets (NY PSC 1983) (won pro-competition toll access imputation requirement); Telephone Services That Bypass Local Exchange Networks (NY PSC 1985); New York Telephone Co. (Rates) (NY PSC 1987) (negotiated three-year rate case moratorium on Governor’s behalf); New York Telephone Co. (Network Modernization) (NY PSC 1994) (won ruling that accounting must be made to prevent captive services from subsidizing new enhanced services); and New York Telephone Co. (Performance Incentives) (NY PSC 1994) (won $294 million revenue requirement reduction).
Served as a staff member on the Governor's Hurricane Gloria Task Force (1985); and represented agency on the Governor's Telecommunications Exchange (1993).
1976 to 1980: Assistant People’s Counsel, People's Counsel to the Maryland Public Service Commission
Advised and represented a state agency in complex administrative litigation and judicial appeals concerning Maryland's gas, electric, telephone, and water utilities and bus, taxicab, and ferryboat common carriers, including major gas and electric rate cases, fuel rate adjustment proceedings, and investigations of electric demand forecasting and construction planning. Also appeared in U.S. v. Maryland (D. Md. 1979) (successfully opposed claim that State environmental surcharge in electric rates constituted an unlawful tax upon the Federal government).
PRIVATE LAW PRACTICE AND OTHER EXPERIENCE:
Law-Related Experience: Associate Attorney, Roland, Fogel, Koblenz, and Carr, Albany, New York (March 1990) (practiced telecommunications and corporate law); Consultant, Delaware Public Advocate (Part-Time, 1981) (assisted in the preparation of the Public Advocate’s direct case in Diamond State Telephone Company (DE PSC 1981)); Sole Practitioner (Part-Time, 1976-1980), Baltimore, Maryland (practiced real property, small business, estate, and unemployment insurance law); Pre-Trial Release Investigator, Pre-Trial Release Program, Supreme Bench of City of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland (1973-1974) (testified at bail review and habeas corpus hearings concerning the release of indigent criminal defendants on their own recognizance, based upon jailhouse interviews and research)
Other Business Experience: Developed, owned, and/or managed various rental real estate properties; developed and marketed novelty item; imported and marketed Lithuanian clay houses; applied unsuccessfully for two patents (film labeling and children’s teaching device); assisted in the successful patent application for an improvement in the forwarding of information from cellular telephone messages.
Other Work Experience: Substitute Teacher, Northwestern Senior High School, Baltimore City School District, Baltimore, Maryland (taught history and social studies to high school seniors on a full-time, temporary basis).
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
J.D., 1976 University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland
B.A., 1973 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (Honors Program; History Honorary Society)
Other:
Baltimore Hebrew University, Baltimore, Maryland
Towson State University, Towson, Maryland
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
National Association Of State Utility Consumer Advocates, Co-Founder (1979), Member, Executive and By-Laws Committees (1979-1981), Member, Telecommunications Committee (1985-1995); New York State Bar Association, Member, Committee on Public Utility Law (1995-2002); The Florida Bar, Budget Committee (1984-1985); Maryland State Bar Association, Member, Section On Administrative Law, Committee On Administrative Procedures Act and Committee On Agency Accountability And Responsiveness (1976-1980)
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