LawCrossing’s Top Energy Law Firms In D.C.

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LawCrossings Top Energy Law Firms In D.C.

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• Summary These top law firms deal with laws
  governing the use of oil, gasoline, coal, wind
  energy, and solar energy.

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• Law firms that specialize in energy law focus
  their practices on the statutes, government
  regulations, and case law that govern the use of
  renewable and non-renewable resources. These
  firms may deal with laws governing the use of
  oil, gasoline, coal, wind energy, and solar
  energy. They may represent individuals or
  corporations with interests in such
  practices.Akin Gump represents oil, gas, and
  electric clients in transactional matters. Akin
  Gump assists its clients with power purchases,
  development, mergers and acquisitions, joint
  ventures, and other matters.Alston
  Bird's Environment, Land Use and Natural
  Resources Group employs twenty-five lawyers. The
  firm has represented clients in areas such as
  environmental compliance, land use, litigation,
  and enforcement defense.Andrews Kurth has
  represented big energy names such as BP, Duke
  Energy,Chevron USA, and many more. It has served
  as counsel for its clients in cases involving
  securitizations, structured financing, corporate
  issues, regulatory matters, and many other
  transactions.Baker Botts frequently represents
  transporters, processors, distributors,
  producers, and marketers in various forms of
  energy, such as oil, natural gas, and coal. The
  firm handles matters for these clients in both
  state and federal courts, as well as before
  regulatory agencies. 
• Balch Bingham has practiced in the energy
  sector for over nine decades, and is involved in
  several energy industry organizations such as the
  Nuclear Energy Institute the ABA Section of
  Environment, Energy and Resources the Edison
  Electric Institute Legal Committee the Energy
  Bar Association and the National Hydropower
  Association.Bracewell Giuliani has served as
  legal counsel in energy transactions across the
  globe. Many of their clients focus on renewable
  energy. The firm represents businesses of all
  sizes, including some of the most popular
  publicly traded companies in the industry, as
  well as small, privately owned entities. 
• Cadwalader enjoys a thriving energy and
  commodities practice. The firm represents its
  clients in areas such as renewable and
  alternative power development investigations
  transactions and regulation and
  compliance. Chadbourne has a skilled
  environmental department, and its attorneys have
  represented clients in matters involving wind
  farming, ethanol facility financing, and the
  financing of landfill gas sites. 

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• Crowell Moring is an international law firm
  whose practice includes advising clients on
  renewable energy and storage development
  electricity transmission interconnection
  services regulatory issues compliance and
  other similar issues.Dentons' energy practice
  spreads across thirty-three countries. Dentons'
  attorneys represent clients in matters such as
  regulatory issues, litigation, advocacy, project
  development, and other areas in the energy
  industry.DLA Piper's energy practice focuses
  on various energy disputes, as well as nuclear
  power, water conservation, climate change, trade,
  power, and other areas in the industry. Gibson
  Dunn employs over forty attorneys in its Energy
  and Infrastructure practice. The firm is actively
  involved in transactions such as power projects,
  energy and natural resources, industrial
  applications, telecommunications, and
  more. Jones Day's Energy Practice advises
  government entities, private companies, and
  others in various types of energy transactions.
  Examples include regulatory hearings, the
  resolution of disputes, and other matters.KL
  Gates' Energy, Infrastructure and Resources group
  handles a wide range of issues for its clients.
  Examples include matters involving mining,
  nuclear energy, oil and gas, government
  enforcement, energy storage, renewable energy,
  renewable energy, public-private partnerships,
  and other issues that its clients face.The
  Energy and Natural Resources practice at King
  Spalding includes several subsections, including
  oil and gas, nuclear, power, metals and mining,
  and liquefied natural gas. The firm employs over
  250 attorneys in this department, and these
  attorneys have represented clients in energy
  matters in over 90 countries.Kirkland
  Ellis' energy practice includes handling
  transactions involving energy litigation,
  renewable energy, clean technology, mergers and
  acquisitions, restructuring, and climate change.
• Latham Watkins enjoys an expansive energy
  practice. Its attorneys counsel clients on
  finance, taxes, environmental issues, litigation,
  capital markets, private equity, complex mergers
  and acquisitions, various oil and gas
  transactions, and more. McCarter
  English attorneys have a wealth of knowledge and
  experience in the energy industry. Its clients
  include power plans, retailers of electricity and
  natural gas, water distribution utilities,
  manufacturers, and many, many more. 

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• McGuire Woods' energy practice prides itself on
  combining energy technology, legal, business, and
  policy experience to provide a full range of
  services to its clients, including developers,
  utilities, startups, suppliers, and others
  involved in the industry. Milbank's energy-rela
  ted practices include infrastructure and water
  oil and gas mining and metals renewable energy
  and power and energy, to name a few. The firm was
  founded in New York in 1886, and has offices
  located around the world. Morgan
  Lewis's energy practice has advised the electric
  power sector, the oil and gas industry, the water
  industry, various financial entities, developers,
  public-private partnerships, and state-owned
  businesses in numerous transactions.Norton
  Rose's energy practice employs attorneys in every
  major energy sector, according to the firm's
  website. Its areas of practice include
  sustainability, client change, water, oil and
  gas, renewables, power, and nuclear energy. Over
  800 attorneys work in Norton Rose's energy
  practice.Orrick Herrington's energy practice
  represents various clients in the industry, such
  as investors, sponsors, private equity funds,
  underwriters, lenders, and more. The firm
  represents and advises these clients in
  transactions involving hydroelectric, biomass,
  wind, solar, natural gas, and other
  matters. Pillsbury's energy practice
  encompasses nuclear energy, environmental issues,
  clean technology, mergers and acquisitions, power
  generation and transmission, renewable and
  alternative energy, liquefied natural gas, and
  several other areas of the industry. It was
  ranked as a Tier 1 nuclear law firm by Chambers
  Global.Sidley Austin's energy department
  represents a diverse group of clients, including
  refined product and CO2 pipelines, financial
  institutions, oil and gas companies, utilities
  companies, and others in different regulatory,
  litigation, and transaction matters. Simpson
  Thacher has divided its energy practice into
  several areas. It represents clients in renewable
  and clean energy departments, electric power and
  transmission, pipelines, energy services
  infrastructure, midstream, refining,
  petrochemicals, oil field, exploration, and
  production.

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• Skadden has several separate energy practices
  energy and infrastructure projects, energy and
  regulation, energy tax, mining, and utilities
  mergers and acquisitions.Spiegel McDiarmid's
  energy practice makes up a large percentage of
  its business. Its practices include hydro and
  water, reliability, telecommunications, utility
  workforce, transportation, gas, and electric. Its
  services include litigation, appeals, public
  policy, lobbying, compliance, enforcement, and
  negotiating agreements.Steptoe
  Johnson's energy practice includes litigation,
  counseling, and representing companies in front
  of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
  Congress, and other state and federal
  agencies. Stinson Leonard Street LLP boasts a
  broad energy practice. Its attorneys are located
  in various offices across the United States, and
  have vast experience in matters such as oil and
  natural gas matters, transactional work in oil
  and natural gas pipelines, regulatory issues, and
  renewables.Sutherland Asbill Brennan LLP has
  practiced in energy-related matters for over
  forty years. Its 70 energy attorneys have been
  present for many changes in the industry, such as
  the increase in shale oil and gas production, the
  change in liquefied natural gas markets from
  imports to exports, changes in tax laws, and
  more. Thompson Coburn LLP has years of
  experience in regulatory matters, including
  energy concerns. It has represented clients in
  matters of both a domestic and international
  nature, including antitrust issues, regulatory
  matters, and compliance.Troutman Sanders
  LLP has divided its energy practices into three
  main departments regulatory, transactional, and
  industry. Its regulatory practice includes
  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission work, state
  energy regulation, nuclear matters, utility taxes
  and energy policy and legislation. Its
  transactional work includes project development
  and financing, renewable energy, and energy
  corporate and transactions. In the industry
  practice, attorneys focus on oil and natural gas,
  energy construction, electricity, energy storage,
  nuclear energy, and renewable energy.Van Ness
  Feldman LLP's energy practice includes a wide
  range of issues, such as biomass, offshore wind,
  solar energy, water, coal, and oil and gas
  transactions. 

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• Venable LLP has enjoyed success in many
  energy-related transactions, such as those
  involving tax issues, litigation, environmental
  issues, public policy, labor, employment,
  government contracts, and intellectual
  policy. Vinson Elkins LLP has expanded its
  energy practice to include master limited
  partnerships, gas storage, gathering and
  processing oil and gas, nuclear power, electric
  transmissions and smart grids, mining and metals,
  trading, marketing, refining, exploration and
  production, and more. White Case LLP, an
  international law firm, employs skilled attorneys
  who practice in areas involving renewable energy,
  regulation, power, climate change, and mining and
  metals. Winston Strawn LLP's Energy and
  Environmental Practice includes over eighty
  attorneys who represent a range of clients,
  including oil companies, gas companies,
  borrowers, investors, power producers,
  developers, and more. The firm advertises a
  full-service approach to representing the energy
  industry. Wright Talisman PC focuses on
  energy law. Its attorneys are skilled in natural
  gas and oil transmission and distribution, energy
  project development, regulation, and renewable
  energy. The firm is comprised of sixteen
  attorneys who focus on energy matters. Photo
  credit The Guardian
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