Jon has been in private practice in Washington, DC, since 1987. Prior to joining Arent Fox, he was a partner in the Washington office of an AmLaw 100 law firm. His experience includes matters involving the rates that telephone companies and Internet companies pay each other when they interconnect and trade traffic, i.e., “access charges” and other forms of “intercarrier compensation.” He has represented clients in every major Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proceeding dealing with the regulation of access charges; has litigated disputes involving access charges in more than a dozen federal courts; has represented competitive telecom carriers in local competition rulemaking proceedings and network interconnection proceedings conducted by the FCC and more than 20 state regulatory commissions; and has represented competitive telecom carriers in over 100 tariff dispute proceedings and rate cases before the FCC and state regulatory commissions.

Jon’s representative experience includes:

• 2009 to present: Represent the Oglala Sioux Tribe in telecommunications matters before the FCC, federal, and Tribal courts
• 2006 to present: Represent numerous rural telephone companies in federal court litigation and related FCC and state regulatory commission proceedings
• 2002 to present: Advise a variety of VoIP-based carriers, including the first generation of all-IP-based telephone companies, and SIP-based hosted IP-PBX providers
• 2004 to present: Advise three of the country's first full-service, carrier-grade broadband wireless networks on business and regulatory issues
• 2003-2004: Represented a large cellular carrier in the Intercarrier Compensation Forum; this pan-industry group of more than 20 of the country's largest telecom companies met for nine months in an extensive, but ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to negotiate fundamental changes in the rules governing what carriers pay and receive for telecom traffic that they share
• 2000-2003: Successfully represented over 20 competitive telcos in litigating and negotiating an industry wide dispute with AT&T and Sprint over carrier rates and charges, including cases before the FCC and two federal district courts
• 2000: Successfully prosecuted the first "rocket docket" accelerated complaint before the FCC
• 1997: Represented a group of five competitive telcos to litigate the country's first co-carrier mutual compensation tariff
• 1996-1997: Represented a large cellular carrier in the country's first wireless/Bell telephone company interconnection arbitration proceedings
• 1991: Negotiated the country's first joint provisioning contract between a competitive telco and a Bell telephone company to establish a full-service network for a mutual customer
• 1988-1989: Negotiated and litigated the country's first collocation arrangement between a competitive telco and an incumbent telephone company