Ellen G. Block
  Levine, Henry D.
  Blaszak, James
  Block, Ellen G.
  Brown, Andrew M.
  Boothby, Colleen
  Boehling, D.E.
  Castillo, Justin G.
  Dilallo, Kevin S.
  Gamboa, Joaquin
  Goodman, Janine F.
  Johnston, Mark G.
  Lindsey, Marc A.
  McDonald, Laura F.H.
  Rosen, Stephen J.
  Shish, Imix L.

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Ellen G. Block is a partner in Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby, LLP, a firm specializing in the representation of large telecommunications users and companies built on new and emerging technologies.

Ms. Block advises and represents companies heavily dependent on telecommunications, including the nation's largest banks and credit card associations, on matters before federal and state regulatory agencies concerning the features and pricing of new services and competition in the market for new and existing services. Ms. Block has represented a wide range of telecommunications users (including the AFL-CIO, Ameriprise Financial, Arrow Electronics, the Bank of New York Mellon, Bertelsmann, Boise Cascade, T. Rowe Price, Cardinal Health, ChevronTexaco, DaimlerChrysler, DuPont, Federated Department Stores, General Motors, the Hartford Insurance Co., Hyatt Corporation, Moody's Investors Service, Nestlé USA, OfficeMax, DuPont, the AFL-CIO, Bertelsmann, PepsiCo, Electronic Data Systems, Inc., the Prudential Insurance Company, Nestlé, Hyatt Corporation, Ashland, Inc., Bear Stearns, Jones Apparel Group, the Hartford Insurance Co., Federated Department StoresT. Rowe Price, Target Corporation) in the negotiation and documentation of agreements for custom telecommunications and related services like telecommunications expense management (TEM) agreements and major equipment purchase and maintenanceprocurements. She has particular experience in modifying these kinds of agreements in the context of corporate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and sales. She has appeared as an expert witness in Federal court, is a featured speaker at conferences and seminars on telecommunications issues and the has authored of articles for Business Communications Review, Communications Week and the newsletter of the Communications Managers Association. She is the Vice-Chair of the Domestic Telecommunications and Information Services Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of Science and Technology.

From 1988 to 1992, Ms. Block was an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Morrison & Foerster. Prior to that, she was Senior Regulatory Attorney to MCI Communications Corporation, appearing before the FCC on such issues as the pricing of switched and special access, competitive pricing by dominant interexchange carriers, and federal preemption of state regulation. She represented MCI in court in cases concerning the FCC's Computer III decisions and the sharing of facilities by AT&T and its former subsidiaries in the wake of the Bell System divestiture. Ms. Block served as Associate General Counsel to Common Cause prior to joining MCI.

Ms. Block is a magna cum laude graduate of Brandeis University and holds an M.A.T. from Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and New York.