Select Matters
- Approval of certificate of convenience and necessity for power generation resources: Represented retail electric utility in its successful efforts to obtain PSC authorization to acquire existing combined cycle and combustion turbine generation; construct new combined cycle generation; and enter into a power purchase agreement for output from existing generation.
- Defense of electric cost recovery tariff: Represented retail electric utility in litigation (PSC, FERC and federal district court) involving challenges to existing retail tariff authorizing cost recovery for back-up power service to partial requirements customers with on-site generation.
- Representation and advocacy in interstate pipeline rate case: Represented electric utility shippers in major interstate pipeline Natural Gas Act section 4 rate cases.
- Defense of fuel cost recovery tariff: Represented retail electric utility in litigation (PSC and state appellate courts) involving litigation over third-party challenges to practices surrounding existing retail fuel cost recovery tariff.
- Representation and advocacy in interstate pipeline tariff dispute: Represented electric utility shippers in dispute over interstate pipeline tariff modification to install automatic cost recovery mechanism.
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Credentials
- University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D., 2001, cum laude
- University of Colorado, B.S., 1994
- Supreme Court of Alabama
- U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama
- Alabama, 2001
- Texas, 2016
- Birmingham Bar Association
- American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources; Editorial Board, Natural Resources & Environment, 2007 - present
- Energy Bar Association
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Energy Regulatory Law
- Highlands School, Board of Trustees
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama