Jonathan Sallet
Partner
Jonathan Sallet is a partner in O’Melveny’s Washington DC office.
Jonathan’s legal background includes serving as Chief Policy Counsel of MCI Telecommunications and previous partnerships in two nationally-known law firms.
Jonathan served in the Clinton Administration as Assistant to the Secretary and Director of the Office of Policy & Strategic Planning of the Department of Commerce, focusing on economic and technology policy. He was a member of the small group of Administration officials who met regularly with Vice President Gore to address the telecommunications issues that became the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and he headed the first White House working group on the deployment of educational technology.
From 1996-2000, Jonathan served as Chief Policy Counsel of MCI (later MCI WorldCom) where he concentrated on issues arising from the implementation of the Telecommunications Act, including the opening of markets to competition and where he oversaw merger reviews concerning BT, WorldCom and Sprint.
Jonathan has taught as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School and the University of Maryland.
Professional Activities
Admitted to Practice, US Supreme Court; US Courts of Appeal, Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits
Law Clerk, Honorable Lewis F. Powell, US Supreme Court; Honorable Edward Tamm, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Member, Advisory Board, American Antitrust Institute; Silicon Flatiron Senior Adjunct Fellow, University of Colorado in Boulder; Special Advisor to the Center for American Progress's Science Progress project on Regional Innovation Clusters
Author, Politics and the Prisoners' Dilemma;
April's Dollars & Deals: The Broadband Value Circle;
The Creation of Value: The Broadband Value Circle and Evolving Market Structures;
“New Products At Every Stage” – The Application of Common-Law Reasoning in an Age of Innovation;
Principles for governmental action in a broadband world;
Just how open must an open network be for an open network to be labeled open?Co-Author, Growing Pains, Growing Gains;
On the Internet, it's 1904;
Behold the Broadband Value Circle Speaker, "Antitrust Challenges of Multi-Channel Distribution and Shopper Marketing," American Antitrust Institute (June 2011)