Description:
Are you in?Primary Purpose of Position:
A qualified attorney, preferably with regulatory litigation experience, to handle complex legal matters on behalf of the Company.
Primary Duties and Accountabilities
- Performs as a specialist in regulatory litigation and administrative law, including ratemaking, provides technical and expert legal services to ComEd and has strong comprehension of the electric utility business.
- Under minimal supervision, plans, conducts and supervises complex legal assignments, requiring an ability to evaluate matters that may have a major bearing on the Company's business; evaluates legal and business risks and regulatory viability of strategic initiatives and advises clients accordingly
- Interprets and applies internal policies consistent with the law
- Represents ComEd before the Illinois Commerce Commission and other state agencies in administrative proceedings and/or relevant litigation
- Prepares and manages budgets for all matters involving outside counsel and manage outside counsel engagement
- Provides lead direction and/or project leadership direction to less experienced attorneys and support staff
- Projects / duties as assigned
Job Scope
- Supports more senior attorneys in the ongoing management of relationships and matters on behalf of ComEd, including with internal clients, outside counsel, external stakeholders and state regulators
- Demonstrates superior legal judgment in the business context
- Demonstrates innovation; generates new ideas and devises original and successful solutions, programs and actions
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
- An LLB or JD from an accredited law school and licensed to practice law in IL or comparable jurisdiction
- At least 5 to 8 years of professional experience
- Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge of principles, practices and procedures relevant to the operation and success of a utility regulatory litigation practice
- Requires excellent legal research, analytical abilities and an ongoing knowledge of federal or state law, especially regulatory, administrative and litigation law
- Must have the ability to communicate clearly – both orally and in writing; to read and analyze legal materials and other data; to work in stressful conditions under time deadlines
- Superior writing skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in administrative litigation including appearing before administrative law judges and preparing and presenting pre-filed testimony
- Experience with regulatory agencies, including working collaboratively in workshops and through stakeholder outreach, prior to rulemaking or related policy formulating proceedings
- Experience working with technical experts to prepare and present testimony in contested proceedings
- Strong legal writing experience, including drafting pleadings on technical subjects incorporating complex fact patterns into issues of law in a manner accessible to non-experts
- Knowledge of various utility ratemaking structures.
- Experience providing direct counsel to clients.
- Preferably 5 to 10 years of relevant professional experience
