Principal
CurrentKlein Law Group PLLC is a D.C.-based telecom and litigation boutique that provides big-firm counsel with boutique-firm economies and service. Philip represents competitive telecommunications and broadband providers on regulatory policy, compliance, litigation, and dispute resolution matters before the FCC, state public service commissions, and federal courts. He also assists clients in preparing broadband construction funding applications and addressing other obligations under federal and state programs, including the FCC’s RDOF, NTIA’s BEAD and Middle Mile, USDA’s Reconnect, Community Connect and Telecommunications Infrastructure Loan, and ARPA’s SLFRF and CPF programs. During the past few years, Philip assisted a client in obtaining more than $90 million in broadband funding awards.Philip advises companies on a wide range of business and legal communications issues, such as federal and state grant programs for broadband deployment, rules and orders to spur broadband deployment, fiber builds, rip and replace program, the TRACED Act, STIR/SHAKEN, caller ID authentication, illegal robocalling and spoofing, call blocking, telecom fraud, 8YY calling, 10 Digit Long Code (10DLC) policies, Kari’s Law and Ray Baum’s Act, Unbundled Network Elements (UNEs), resale, forbearance, business data services/special access, copper loop retirement, interconnection, TDM-to-IP transition, disconnections and discontinuances, pole attachments, collocation, commercial and tariffed arrangements, intercarrier compensation, access charge disputes, universal service, USAC requests and contribution inquiries, net neutrality and restoring Internet freedom, mergers, competition policy, and disability rights (including Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone Service (IP CTS)). He also counsels on privacy, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), slamming and cramming, Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI), and winback/retention marketing issues.
