Select Matters
- Depreciation Rate Filings: Represented investor-owned utilities in limited-scope, single issue filings to implement revised depreciation rates.
- Modifications to Large Generator Interconnection Procedures (LGIP) to Implement Clustering Approach: Represented investor-owned utility in filing to modify its LGIP to transition from a “first-come, first-served” generator interconnection approach to a “first-ready, first-served” generator interconnection approach.
- Order No. 864 Compliance Filings: Represented investor-owned utilities in filings to comply with FERC's requirements associated with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
- Modifications to LGIP to Accommodate Replacement Generation: Represented investor-owned utility in filing modifications to implement provisions facilitating the replacement of generating facilities on utility's transmission system.
- Annual Transmission Rate Processes: Represented investor-owned utilities in annual formula rate meetings, annual formula rate filings, and informal data requests under formula rate protocols.
- Order No. 845 Compliance Filing: Represented investor-owned utility in filing modifying its Large Generator Interconnection Procedures and Large Generator Interconnection Agreement to comply with FERC's Order Nos. 845 and 845-A.
- Transitioning from Stated to Formula Electric Transmission Rates: Represented investor-owned utilities in filings to transition from stated electric transmission rates to formula electric transmission rates
- Stated Electric Transmission Rates: Represented a large independent electric transmission company (formed as a commercial venture between two utility holding companies) in transmission revenue requirement rate case.
- Defending Section 206 Challenges: Represented investor-owned utilities in Section 206 challenges regarding justness and reasonableness of transmission rates.
- Generation and Transmission Interconnections: Represented both investor-owned utilities and generation owners in negotiating interconnection agreements at transmission and distribution voltages, and represented investor-owned utilities in negotiating transmission-level “wires-to-wires” interconnection agreements with bordering utilities.
- Other Cost-of-Service Rates: Represented investor-owned utilities in rate filings for reactive power service, represented investor-owned utility in filing to update post-retirement benefits other than pensions, and represented electric entities in developing rates for wholesale distribution service.
- Incentive Rate Treatments: Represented investor-owned utility in obtaining FERC approval of incentive rate treatment associated with more than $850 million of transmission enhancement projects.
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Credentials
- University of Baltimore, J.D., 1998, magna cum laude, Heuisler Honor Society (graduating top 10%)
- Towson University, M.A., Clinical Psychology, 1994
- Albright College, B.A., Psychology, 1991
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2002
- U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, 1999
- U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 2000
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 2000
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1999
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2001
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 2001
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 2008
- U. S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 1999
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, 2000
- U.S. District Court, Maryland, 1999
- District of Columbia, 1999
- Maryland, 1998
- Energy Bar Association, 1998-Present
- President-Elect, Board of Directors, 2022-present
- Vice President, Board of Directors, 2021-2022
- Assistant Secretary, Board of Directors 2020-2021
- Board of Directors, 2015-2018
- Charitable Foundation of Energy Bar Association
- Board of Directors, Ex Officio - President-Elect, Vice President (EBA) 2021-present
- Ex Officio, President Board of Directors, 2020-2021
- President, Board of Directors, 2019-2020,
- Vice President, Board of Directors, 2018-2019
- Foundation of the Energy Law Journal
- Board of Directors, Ex Officio - President-Elect, Vice President (EBA) 2021-present
- Maryland State Bar Association, 1998-present
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Energy Law, 2023
- Chambers Global, Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation), 2022 - present
- Chambers USA, Nationwide Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
- Legal 500 US: Energy Regulation, 2018-2022
- Legal 500 US: Next Generation Lawyer - Energy Litigation: Conventional Power, 2017
- The John Carroll Society