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Schiff Hardin LLP's Regina Y. Speed-Bost Will Speak at the American Conference Institute's National Forum on Energy Trading Compliance

November 13, 2007

Regina Y. Speed-Bost, a partner in Schiff Hardin's Energy Group, will speak at the American Conference Institute's National Forum on Energy Trading Compliance. Ms. Speed-Bost's session is "CFTC/FERC Overlap: Redefining Boundaries and Regulatory Objectives in a Changing Landscape." The forum is scheduled for January 29 and 30 at L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Speed-Bost concentrates in energy administrative and regulatory law. She advises electric utilities on matters related to compliance with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's ("FERC") regulations, its standards of conduct, and FERC's general enforcement authority. She also advises on the operation of regional transmission organizations, retail gas, electric and gas competition, Open Access Transmission Tariff ("OATT") operations, and the interplay of federal wholesale regulation and state and local retail regulations.

Prior to joining Schiff Hardin, Ms. Speed-Bost was a partner at Sullivan & Worcester LLP, where she represented state and local regulatory bodies as well. Earlier in her legal career, from March 1997 until October 1998, Ms. Speed-Bost was the legal adviser for natural gas and oil pipeline matters to a FERC commissioner where she advised on all matters related to the FERC's statutory obligations to regulate the transportation of natural gas and crude oil in interstate commerce. Before then, from September 1990 until March 1997, she served as both an advisory attorney and as a trial attorney in the FERC's Office of General Counsel where she advised the commission on matters relating to rates, terms and conditions of service for natural gas pipeline companies and intrastate pipeline companies under the Natural Gas Act and the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978. In addition, she served in the Commission's Enforcement Division where she investigated regulatory and statutory violations involving natural gas pipeline companies and hydroelectric facilities, participated in administrative litigation and participated in settlement negotiations on behalf of the FERC.