INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) PRACTICE GROUP

The ICT Practice Group is a consulting practice within JPJ with specific experience in all phases of the telecommunications industry. The professionals within the group offer industry clients a robust array of consulting services ranging from technology deployment to financial management, marketing and customer service. The ICT Group's areas of expertise include technology deployment, regulatory and economic policy, project management, customer service, corporate development and strategic planning. The JPJ Telecommunications Group offers clients access to a team of seasoned and highly skilled industry professionals.

The ICT Group also offers clients access to a variety of regulatory and transactional legal services, including negotiating, drafting, and reviewing contracts, memoranda of understanding, legislation, regulations, and regulatory policies; litigation support; facilitating business development for regulated businesses and for businesses that are affected by regulation; developing regulatory strategy and external affairs policies and programs; and managing regulatory crises.

Members of the ICT Group include former regulators and corporate counsel; financial, technology and operational experts; executives with operations experience, and attorney's who have provided outside counsel for some of the United States' largest telecommunications companies. ICT Group members have over 100 years of experience in shaping and implementing regulatory policy, both at the state and federal levels within the United States and in other countries.

ENERGY PRACTICE GROUP

Within the energy practice, the JPJ Group will leverage the experience and skills of the firm's members, consortium partners and its strategic partners. The energy group's core competencies include the development and implementation of regulatory frameworks, electric and natural gas restructuring/deregulation, energy privatization, and the development of alternative energy generation projects, and regulatory capacity building.