Ajit Pai Joins Jenner & Block Law Firm

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Ajit Pai, deputy general counsel and associate general
counsel for the FCC has joined law firm Jenner & Block in Washington
as a member of its communications practice.

Before joining the FCC in 2007 under then Chairman Kevin
Martin, Pai's resume included deputy chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary
Committee's Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts and senior
counsel in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy, and associate
general counsel at Verizon.

Jenner & Block's communications practice is headed
by Pai's former boss, one-time FCC General Counsel Samuel Feder. "I was
very impressed with him when he was my Associate General Counsel at the FCC and
I am looking forward to working with him again," Feder said.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.