Caitlin M. Shields focuses her practice on energy regulation and state telecommunications issues. She routinely advises on and litigates resource planning issues, ratemaking and rate design, CPCNs, energy efficiency, renewable energy and distributed generation, municipalization and regulated monopoly issues, power procurement, and utility restructuring and competitive market development. She also devotes a significant portion of her practice to providing strategic policy and legislative guidance, and finding creative regulatory solutions to issues posed by new and emerging energy technologies in energy and telecommunications.
Ms. Shields also advises clients in environmental, health, and safety matters. She provides regulatory and compliance counseling, and conducts environmental due diligence reviews on transactional matters.
Previously, Ms. Shields worked for a boutique energy and environmental litigation firm in Chicago. Prior to that, she was a law clerk for Judge Herbert L. Stern III of the Denver District Court where she focused on complex civil litigation and administrative appeals. She has clerked for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training, and worked as a summer associate at a large law firm in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
