Primary Office
Select Capabilities for Litigation Clients
- Modifying litigation strategy to respond to evolving case needs, including identifying new local counsel, leveraging parallel cases underway in other jurisdictions, and advocating the client's position through writings ranging from memoranda in support of summary judgment to mediation statements to evaluations of errors of law in lower court decision.
- Developing and leading the electronic discovery strategy for cases involving multiple defendants and expert witnesses, including managing the contributions of teams of Saul Ewing lawyers and multiple contract attorney reviewers who work together to evaluate client, opposing party, and expert witness documents, often comprised of thousands of pages of data.
- Creating and implementing strategy to locate Doe defendants, including obtaining court authorization to serve subpoenas for electronically stored identifying information, managing local counsel outside the United States and navigating service of process systems in the United States and abroad.
- Establishing an appellate strategy and drafting the initial and reply briefs based on analysis and detailed interpretation of decades-old land records.
Select Representations for Energy, Utility and Telecommunications Clients
- Preparing applications and accompanying witness testimony to obtain Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity for the construction and modification of transmission lines and generating stations, including the application to obtain state approval for the siting of a new nuclear reactor.
- Authoring testimony for an expert witness opining in federal court on the legitimacy of competitive retail electric supply providers, the reasonableness and appropriateness of option agreements, and the potential for harm to ratepayers.
- Representing utility and telecommunications clients at hearings, in rulemaking sessions, and in negotiations with state agency personnel to obtain timely approvals, including successfully arguing to the Maryland Public Service Commission through written briefing that a utility company had not violated a duty under a settlement agreement to maximize proceeds from the sale of output from a cogeneration facility.
- Obtaining Maryland Public Service Commission approvals for changes in business structure, including major electric company mergers and refinancing actions. These engagements involved managing the process for responding to hundreds of complex data requests and intervening on behalf of a telecommunications company to retroactively seek approval for business structure changes and avoid a significant penalty.
- Seeking administrative agency approvals for revisions to tariffs, including approval from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for changes to a gas tariff for the purpose of revising the penalty for unauthorized use of natural gas during a called interruption.
Select Representations for Business Clients
- Providing a litigation perspective to emerging issues, including identifying and managing communications with expert witnesses and reviewing and responding to threats of litigation. Also providing advice on methods both to access public information, such as awards of government contracts, and to limit the public's access to private company information reported to the government, including trade secrets and other confidential commercial or financial information.
- Evaluating potential defamation claims arising in business settings, such as statements made in on-line reviews, and providing advice on mitigation and response strategies
- Serving as pro bono general counsel for a non-profit corporation, chairing the organization's Litigation and Advocacy Committee, and coordinating access to a broad range of firm resources, including labor and employment, real estate and environmental law attorneys.