Energy

• Successfully settled dispute for natural gas producer after litigating pipeline expansion case at FERC and Pennsylvania state commission.
• Contested merger of two large publicly regulated electric utilities on behalf of a group of wholesale customers in litigation before FERC and the utilities’ incumbent state commissions. 
• Successfully resolved offtake and interconnection dispute for customer-sited, combined CHP and solar facility after filing PURPA enforcement action at FERC.
• Advised IPP developer on restarting deactivated natural gas power plant in PJM territory and provided guidance through PJM’s first-cycle process.
• Advised storage developer on data center-sited storage facilities in PJM territory.
• Served as primary energy counsel for deal team on acquisition of generator located in PJM territory.
• Successfully defeated power company’s attempt to expand regulatory interpretation of state law relating to siting of solar power plants following significant briefing and trial.
• In a years-long litigated proceeding, developed state interconnection procedures to include usable features for non-export solar and storage facilities.
• Supported team performing due diligence for bank that refinanced a national portfolio of distributed energy resources.
• Achieved regulatory rejection of a power company’s first-ever litigated integrated resource plan following eight-day trial.
• Represented trade association in a litigated proceeding to develop renewable energy procurement procedures of public utility.
• In a case of first impression, achieved waiver of state interconnection procedures for customer-sited solar facility.
• Successfully settled dispute for gas marketer in gas utility’s first state rate case in over ten years.
• In a case of first impression, secured order finding that interconnection facilities of a utility-scale solar and storage project were not subject to state commission’s siting authority and review.
• Persuaded regulator to rescind prior order, based on a change in the law, that would have otherwise increased costs and caused development delay of a utility-scale solar project in South Carolina.
• Appeared in first-ever litigated integrated resource plan proceeding of state-owned utility.
• Consulted on regulatory risk for national microgrid feasibility studies.
• Secured regulatory rejection of a power company’s proposed tariff controlling terms of nonresidential distributed solar following six-day trial and approval of client’s proposed tariff.
• Succeeded in obtaining regulatory approval of settlement with a power company on tariffs controlling terms of non-residential distributed solar for 10 years and providing for customer-owned renewable energy credits.

Trials

• Secured partial directed verdict for employer in retaliation claim after $5 million jury demand in federal rocket docket jurisdiction.
• Achieved defense verdict in jury trial for national debt collector alleged to have violated consumer protection laws.
• Obtained partial directed verdict in arbitration for tenant in seven-figure damages cases arising from commercial properties in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia.

Appeals

• Briefed and argued employment defense case in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Reversed trial court’s interlocutory order denying discovery in business fraud case.

Litigation

• Secured seven-figure settlement for international pharmaceutical supplier in lien foreclosure suit.
• Obtained six-figure settlement from insurer of IT vendor that caused catastrophic loss of data after court permitted forensic inspection of hard drives.

Immigration

• Forced USCIS to approve immigrant visa by filing mandamus action against then-FBI Director Robert Mueller.
• Achieved special interest waiver from Department of State for South Carolina physician employed by Federally Qualified Health Center.