Susan C. Gentz

Professional Background

Experience

• Advises clients in the complexity of Telecommunications and Cable Law and counsels clients on legal issues impacting their business operations
• Has extensive experience in negotiating easements, and license and right-of-way agreements, and in negotiating interconnection agreements between competitors and incumbent local exchange carrier
• Represents clients in agency rulemaking proceedings affecting telecommunications and cable providers, and in contested case dockets involving matters such as universal service, municipal access line fees, and rule compliance

Awards & Recognition

• University of Texas School of Law Board Advocates, 1981–1982

Admitted to Practice

• Texas
• U.S. Supreme Court

Education

• University of Texas, Austin, Texas
  - J.D., 1982, with Honors
• George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
  - B.S., Economics, 1970

Publications & Presentations

• Issues in Interconnection Agreement Negotiations with Small and Rural Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers, COMPTEL, September 2010
• New UNE Rules: the FCC’s Decisions on Access to Unbundled Transport, TEXALTEL, April 2005
• BOMA’s Constitutional Challenge to the Texas Building Access Statutes, Federal Communications Bar Association (Texas Chapter), (Co-presenter), May 2002
• Choosing A Contract that Protects Your Interests and Consumer Rights, Electric Deregulation Begins January 1, 2002 — Is Your Company Ready? (conference developed and presented by Casey, Gentz & Sifuentes, L.L.P. and Fox, Smolen and Arnold Consulting), November 2001
• A New Tool for Gaining Access to Customers in Multi-Tenant Buildings, Southwest Competitive Telecommunication Association (now TEXALTEL), April 2001

Professional & Community Activities

• State Bar of Texas
  - Business Law Section
  - Public Utility Law Section, Past Chair
• Austin Bar Association
  - Administrative Law Section
  - Business, Corporate & Tax Section
• Federal Communications Bar Association