Mr. Pope has over forty years’ worth of experience as an attorney. He has worked for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the Texas Public Utility Commission (twice), was General Counsel and General Regulatory Counsel for International Telecharge, Inc., “of counsel” to the law firm of Clark, Thomas and Winters and General Counsel to Premiere Network Services, Inc. He has represented clients before regulatory bodies in over forty states. He is the Co-Author of Understanding Emerging Network Services, Pricing and Regulation (Co-Authored with Leo Wrobel) @Artech House Books, and a Contributor to Business Resumption Planning, Second Edition, with Leo Wrobel. CRC Press, He was in private practice with his own law firm before joining FailSafe as their full-time General Counsel in january 2023.