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Shulman Rogers Gandal Pordy & Ecker, P.A. is a full-service law firm located in Potomac, Maryland. With more than ninety attorneys, the Firm’s services range from Telecommunications and Mergers to Tax and Intellectual Property issues. Shulman Rogers is dedicated to producing value for its clients at a reasonable cost.

The Shulman Rogers Telecommunications Department has extensive experience in land mobile radio. The Firm’s land mobile work includes the representation of wireless trade association, public safety users, SMR operators and radio manufacturers. Shulman Rogers attorneys have been involved in every aspect of the FCC’s narrowbanding rulemaking proceeding since the beginning, and Firm personnel have filed numerous comments in the proceeding with rule proposals.

Shulman Rogers attorneys involved in land mobile radio include:
Alan Tilles
Jeffrey Rubin
Greg Haledjian

	Alan Tilles Mr. Tilles is Chairman of the Firm’s Telecommunications Department and the Firm’s Entertainment Practice Group.  He is counsel to numerous entities in the private radio, internet and entertainment industries.  His breadth of work includes representing PCIA, a major telecommunications trade association.  On behalf of PCIA and other clients, Mr. Tilles has participated in every FCC proceeding involving the private land mobile radio industry since 1984.  In addition, he represents hundreds of public safety agencies (States, Counties and Cities), large and small Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) operators, private system users (including major airlines and utilities), tower owners and radio manufacturers. Mr. Tilles has been involved in the radio industry since the age of 16, and majored in Radio, Television & Film at the University of Maryland.  After graduating from Catholic University's Columbus School of Law in 1982, Mr. Tilles began representing radio broadcasters with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Hayes & White.  He joined Meyer, Faller, Weisman & Rosenberg, P.C. in 1984, and began utilizing his background in radio to help advance the interests of land mobile radio clients, internet service providers and technology companies by bringing technical understanding to legal issues.  The Firm merged with Shulman Rogers in 1998. Mr. Tilles has represented entities in regulatory proceedings, licensing, leasing and telephone interconnection disputes, as well as business transactions.  In that capacity, Mr. Tilles has represented the seller in transactions with Nextel Communications valued at over $500 million.  Presently, Mr. Tilles is representing over 200 public safety licensees in the 800 MHz “rebanding” negotiations with Nextel, and he was part of the committee that drafted the so-called “Consensus Plan,” the template for the FCC’s decision in the matter.  Mr. Tilles is actively involved in the FCC’s “narrowbanding” rulemaking proceeding on behalf of a variety of users, as well the efforts of railroads to implement Positive Train Control (“PTC”). Mr. Tilles is a frequent speaker at trade shows for both the land mobile and internet industries, and has served as a column writer and regulatory consultant for a variety of trade publications, including Urgent Magazine (formerly Mobile Radio Technology Magazine).
	Jeffrey Rubin Jeffrey Rubin is a partner in the law firm. With over twenty five years of practice, Mr. Rubin has substantial experience in the areas of telecommunications, contract, business, real estate, corporate and Federal bankruptcy law. From start up to multi-million dollar companies, he has negotiated and consummated numerous business planning agreements, asset sales, change of ownership and secured and unsecured commercial lending and financial transactions. He has participated in the successful reorganization of several retail businesses and restaurant establishments.
	Greg Haledjian Greg Haledjian serves as an Associate with Shulman Rogers’ Telecommunications Department. Mr. Haledjian has been a key advisor and advocate in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area since the early 1990s. Throughout his professional experience, Mr. Haledjian has worked on staff for a $2 billion NYSE-listed multinational corporation, a boutique communications law firm, two national industry associations, and a Capitol Hill-based lobbying firm. He also interned for FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani (D) and for two Members of Congress – U.S. Representatives Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) and Jill Long (D-IN).

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