AOL hires telecom lawyer
General counsel joins open access battle
By Rex Nutting, CBS MarketWatch
Last Update: 4:23 PM ET Jul 29, 1999 Internet Daily
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DULLES, Va. (CBS.MW) -- America Online has hired a top telecommunications lawyer as its general counsel, the company said Thursday.
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Paul Cappuccio, a senior partner at the Washington law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, has been named senior vice president at the online services company (AOL: news, msgs), which finds itself in a legal battle with AT&T (T: news, msgs) and other cable TV systems over access the cable firms' broadband Internet connections.
Sheila A. Clark has been the company's acting general counsel.
Cappuccio, a Harvard Law School graduate, led Kirkland & Ellis' telecommunications group, whose clients included GTE and Bell Atlantic.
Before joining Kirkland & Ellis in 1993, he worked at the Justice Department as an associate deputy attorney general.
"Paul is an outstanding legal talent who will be a great addition to the AOL team," said America Online Vice Chairman Kenneth Novac in a statement.
Cappuccio clerked for Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy.
Shares of America Online ended Thursday lower, falling 3 1/2 to 99 1/2. See Internet Stocks.
Rex Nutting is Washington bureau chief for CBS MarketWatch.
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