Experience

• Represented natural gas utility clients in examining state law to determine whether sale of companies would trigger state commission jurisdiction.
• Represented natural gas utility in litigation concerning meter error and billing dispute for sales of natural gas.
• Represented natural gas utilities in compliance and enforcement matters before FERC.
• Represents an independent transmission system operator (ISO) in a number of proceedings concerning the development of market rules for New England's wholesale electricity markets.
• Represented an independent transmission system operator in successfully introducing a Forward Capacity Market (FCM) with improved investment incentives for electric energy supply and demand resources.
• Represented a client in administrative litigation at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding the design and implementation of a locational installed capacity market in New England.
• Represents a client in various appellate court proceedings concerning jurisdictional issues related to generation resource adequacy and reliability and defending various market rules governing New England's wholesale electricity markets.
• Represents large casino companies regarding the procurement of electric power and related energy services to supply multi-billion dollar projects under development.
• Represents electric power cooperatives in negotiating power supply contracts with a major public utility.
• Represented interstate pipelines in proceedings before the FERC.
• Represented local distribution companies (LDCs) and other shippers in proceedings before the FERC concerning the rates, terms and conditions of service offered by the interstate pipelines.
• Represents a major public utility with respect to numerous FERC orders and rulemakings, including actions implementing various landmark FERC orders.
• Represented clients in preparing comments regarding FERC's various rulemaking proceedings including standards of conduct for transmission operators, rules governing affiliate relationships, and market manipulation.
• Represents clients in FERC hydropower licensing and relicensing proceedings.
• Represents clients in regulatory compliance, including FERC enforcement proceedings.

Publications 

"Court of Appeals Rejects Petitions for Review of FERC's Decision on Mobile-Sierra Applicability to Forward Capacity Auction Rates," Energy Manager Today (April 8, 2013)

"What is Happening and Where in the World of RTOs and ISOs?" (co-author) 27 Energy Law Journal 65 (2006)

"Liquefied Natural Gas Import Terminals: Jurisdiction Over Siting, Construction, and Operation in the Context of Commerce Clause Jurisprudence," 26 Energy Law Journal 135 (2005); republished in 4 Oil, Gas & Energy Law Journal, (2006)
 

Previous Experience

Earlier in her career, she was an attorney-adviser to the Honorable Carmen A. Cintron and the Honorable William J. Cowan at the FERC.

Her prior experience also includes a brief tenure at a Japanese law firm and at an American investment bank in Tokyo, Japan.