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 NEWS  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12  th  Street,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  This  is  an  unofficial  announcement  of  Commission  action.  Release  of  the  full  text  of  a  Commission  order  constitutes  official  action.  See  MCI  v.  FCC.  515  F  2d  385  (D.  C.  Circ  1974).  News  Media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  TTY:  1-  888-  835-  5322 
 FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE:  NEWS  MEDIA  CONTACT:  Tuesday,  December  7,  2004  Mark  Wigfield,  202-  418-  0253 
 Email:  mark.  wigfield@  fcc.  gov 


 Pamela  Arluk  and  Jeremy  Marcus  Promoted  to  Legal  Counsel  Positions  in  FCC’s  Wireline  Competition  Bureau 
 Washington,  D.  C.  –  Jeffrey  Carlisle,  Chief  of  the  Federal  Communications  Commission’s  Wireline  Competition  Bureau,  announced  today  that  Pamela  Arluk  and  Jeremy  Marcus  have 
 been  promoted  to  fill  the  Bureau’s  two  Legal  Counsel  positions. 
 Ms.  Arluk  will  be  responsible  for  development  and  oversight  of  policy  matters  covered  by  the  Bureau’s  Competition  Policy  Division  and  Industry  Analysis  and  Technology  Division. 
 Ms.  Arluk  had  been  a  Senior  Attorney-  Advisor  in  the  Competition  Policy  Division  since  April  2002.  During  that  time,  she  was  the  team  leader  for  the  Triennial  Review  Reconsideration 
 Orders,  and  the  team  leader  for  the  section  271  proceedings  for  the  states  of  Illinois,  Indiana,  Wisconsin,  Ohio  and  Nevada. 


 Before  joining  the  Commission  in  2002,  Ms.  Arluk  served  as  Senior  Counsel  at  Focal  Communications,  where  she  worked  on  competition  policy  issues  before  the  FCC  and  various 
 state  commissions.  She  was  also  an  associate  at  the  law  firms  of  Swidler  Berlin  Shereff  Friedman,  LLP  and  Dow,  Lohnes  and  Albertson. 


 After  graduating  from  law  school,  Ms.  Arluk  clerked  for  the  Honorable  Karen  J.  Williams  of  the  United  States  Court  of  Appeals  for  the  4  th  Circuit.  She  received  her  J.  D.  from 
 the  William  and  Mary  School  of  Law,  and  her  B.  A.  from  Miami  University. 
 Mr.  Marcus  will  be  responsible  for  development  and  oversight  of  policy  matters  covered  by  the  Bureau’s  Telecommunications  Access  Policy  Division,  which  oversees  universal  service 
 support,  and  the  Pricing  Policy  Division.  Mr.  Marcus  had  been  a  Senior  Attorney-  Advisor  at  the  Bureau’s  Pricing  Policy  Division  since  May  2002.  During  that  time,  he  served  as  a  team  leader 
 of  the  pricing  portion  of  the  Virginia  Arbitration  proceeding  and  of  the  on-  going  reexamination  of  the  TELRIC  pricing  rules. 


 Before  joining  the  Commission  in  2002,  Mr.  Marcus  was  an  associate  at  the  law  firm  of  Blumenfeld  &  Cohen  (now  part  of  Piper  Rudnick  Gray  Cary  LLP).  At  that  firm,  he  litigated 
 cases  for  carriers  before  state  public  utility  commissions,  participated  in  FCC  proceedings,  and  negotiated  transactional  matters  for  wireline  and  wireless  carriers  and  technology  providers. 
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 Prior  to  that,  he  was  an  associate  at  the  law  firm  of  Gerry,  Friend  &  Sapronov,  LLP,  in  Atlanta,  Georgia,  and  worked  at  MCI  Telecommunications  Corp. 
 Mr.  Marcus  received  his  J.  D.  from  Georgetown  University  Law  Center,  and  his  B.  A.,  cum  laude,  in  International  Relations  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 
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 on  the  Commission’s  web  site  www.  fcc.  gov. 
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