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GREGORY BOLLOM
Profile Sheet
Greg is Assistant Vice President – Energy Planning with Madison Gas and Electric
Company. Greg has been with MGE for 32 years. Greg’s job responsibilities include generation
planning and transmission policy; electric and natural gas sales and revenue forecasting; and
electric and natural gas pricing. Greg serves on the Edison Electric Institute Retail Energy
Services Executive Advisory Group; Economic Policy Advisory Group; and the Rates and
Regulatory Affairs Committee of which he is past chairman. Greg also serves on the Advisory
Committee for the Critical Consumer Issues Forum, a collaboration of state utility
commissioners, consumer advocates and electric utilities to address important consumer issues at
the forefront of the energy policy debate.
Outside of work, Greg is a long time volunteer in the Destination Imagination (creative
problem solving) program.
Greg has a B.A. degree in economics from St. Norbert College and a M.S. degree in
economics from the University of Wisconsin.
BIOGRAPHY OF MARK C. DARRELL
Mark C. Darrell is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief
Compliance Officer of The Laclede Group, Inc. He is responsible for advising The
Laclede Group’s Board of Directors and senior management on legal matters
affecting The Laclede Group and its principal subsidiaries and supervises the legal
affairs of The Laclede Group companies.
Prior to joining The Laclede Group in May 2004, Mr. Darrell was Assistant
General Counsel of NiSource, Inc., where he supervised the legal representation
and support for NiSource’s supply chain function, the sales and marketing
departments of NiSource’s 11 natural gas and electric local distribution companies,
and its environmental, health and safety department and pipeline safety function.
He joined Columbia Energy Group (before being acquired by NiSource) in October
1997 as General Counsel, Assistant Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer for
Columbia Energy Group’s Virginia gas distribution company, Columbia Gas of
Virginia. After NiSource acquired the Columbia Energy Group in November 2000,
he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Columbia Gas
of Virginia for the year following the acquisition.
He was with New Jersey Resources Corporation from 1992-97, last serving as
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel. Mr. Darrell was in private law
practice in Washington, D.C. from 1987-92, primarily representing clients before
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the District of Columbia Public
Service Commission. From 1984-87, he was Counsel, Legislative and Regulatory
Affairs for the American Gas Association and, from 1982-84, he was AttorneyAdvisor for the United States Department of Energy.
Mr. Darrell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Syracuse
University (1979) and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law
Center (1982). He is Chair of the American Gas Association’s Legal Committee,
Budget Officer and Vice Chair of the Gas and Corporate Governance Committees of
the American Bar Association’s Section of Public Utility, Communications and
Transportation Law, a member of the Energy Bar Association, and serves on the
advisory boards of the Corporate Counsel Institute at Georgetown University Law
Center in Washington, D.C and the Financial Research Institute at the University
of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. He also serves on the boards of Mercy Hospital
Saint Louis, United Way of Greater Saint Louis, Grace Hill Settlement House and
Easter Seals Midwest.
(Revised September 2014)
Joel deJesus
Partner
Joel deJesus represents users, owners and operators of the bulk electric
system, with a specific emphasis on electric reliability regulation resulting
from the Energy Policy Act of 2005. His previous experience working inhouse with utilities and as Director of Compliance Enforcement for the
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) provides him with
a unique insight into this relatively new but essential element of energy
regulation.
Joel assists with drafting and commentating on new standards, advising
clients during audits and investigations, developing mitigation plans and
compliance programs, and representing clients in enforcement actions. He
CONTACT INFORMATION
Washington
t 202.724.6833
f 202.778.6460
jdejesus@schiffhardin.com
PRACTICE AREAS
Energy and Public Utilities
also
advises clients on cyber security, an increasingly significant
component of energy reliability standards.
“Given our background, experience and perspectives, we are uniquely
qualified to help our clients achieve their goals within the boundaries of
the pertinent requirements and regulations,” he says.
Because of his breadth of experience, Joel understands the complexities
of NERC’s eight regional entities. He is familiar with the distinct ways each
INDUSTRIES
region approaches reliability standards and applies that knowledge when
Energy
forming strategies for his clients. He has experience working shoulder-to-
BAR ADMISSIONS
District of Columbia
Pennsylvania (inactive)
shoulder with engineers and other experts in a variety of fields, which
allows him to efficiently communicate and cooperate with clients.
Publications
“How New Cybersecurity Rules Bedevil Electric Industry,” USA Today
(July 17, 2013)
Joel is also a frequent contributor to Schiff Hardin’s Energy and
Environmental Law Adviser.
Speeches and Presentations
“Security: Cyber and Physical,” 20th Annual FERC Briefing, Chicago, Ill.
(May 15, 2014)
“FERC’s Policies for New Transmission Development” and “Security: Cyber
and Physical,” 20th Annual FERC Briefing, Electric Cooperative
Edition, Westminster, Colo. (May 9, 2014)
“FERC’s Policies for New Transmission Development,” 20th Annual FERC
Briefing, Boston, Mass. (April 4, 2014)
“Cyber[in]Security,” 20th Annual FERC Briefing, Boston, Mass. (April 4, 2014)
“Cyber[in]Security,” 19th Annual FERC Briefing, Westminster, Colo., Glen
Allen, Va., and Chicago, Ill. (May 22, June 5 and June 13, 2013)
“Internal Compliance Programs: How to Protect Your Organization,” (copresenter) 19th Annual FERC Briefing, Westminster, Colo., and
Glen Allen, Va. (May 22 and 29, 2013)
“Evolving Electric Reliability Regulation,” (panel moderator) Energy Bar
Association 66th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
(April 22, 2012)
“I was a Middle-Aged Regulator,” (keynote speech) National Energy
Compliance Forum, Kansas City, Kan. (Sept. 14, 2011)
“NERC Enforcement Update: View of a Former Enforcer,” Edison Electric
Institute 2011 Fall Legal Conference, San Francisco, Calif.
(Oct. 14, 2011)
“Compliance Perspective from Inside NERC,” National Rural Electric
Cooperative G&T Legal Seminar, San Diego, Calif. (Nov. 4, 2011)
Pro Bono Activities
Joel has represented children and parents in child abuse and neglect
cases. He successfully argued on behalf of the National Association of
Counsel for Children a case establishing the authority of the guardian ad
litem in child abuse and neglect matters in the District of Columbia.
Previous Experience
Prior to joining Schiff Hardin, Joel was a partner at Bruder, Gentile &
Marcoux L.L.P. in Washington, D.C. In January 2013, Bruder, Gentile &
Marcoux combined with Schiff Hardin.
From 2009 to 2011, Joel served in a number of executive roles at NERC,
including as its Director of Compliance Enforcement. In that role, he
oversaw the enforcement program of NERC and its eight regional entities,
and he spearheaded efforts to make the enforcement of reliability
standards more risk-focused and efficient.
Before joining NERC, Joel was Assistant General Counsel for the Federal
Regulation at National Grid, where he managed National Grid’s legal
activity at FERC, the U.S. Department of Energy and other federal
agencies. He was also Vice President for Regulatory Affairs for Utilicom
Networks LLC, a telecommunications firm focusing in broadband joint
ventures with public utilities.
Education
University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1990)
Member, The University of Chicago Law Review
Bradley Law & Government Fellow
Research in Federalism and Regulatory Policy
Cornell University (B.A., Government, with distinction in all subjects,
1987)
Professional Memberships
Energy Bar Association
Working Group for Investment in Reliable and Economic Electric Systems
(WIRES)
Vice President (2006-2008)
Christine F. Ericson
Deputy Solicitor General and Special Assistant Attorney General
Illinois Commerce Commission, Office of General Counsel
Ms. Ericson has served in the ICC Office of General Counsel since 2002, representing the
Commission in federal regulatory matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the DC and Seventh Circuits. She also represents Commission Staff in trial litigation
on such matters as electric transmission, oil pipeline, and water utility siting, as well as
natural gas rates and contract arbitration. She has advised the Commission on numerous
transmission issues including formula rates and protocols, cost allocation, and regional
transmission organization issues, including the formation and implementation of regional
state committees: the Organization of MISO States (OMS), and Organization of PJM
States (OPSI). She served as Co-Chair of the OMS Markets and Tariffs Work Group
from 2007-2012, and completed a two-year term as a State Government Representative
on the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Planning Committee
from 2010-2012, addressing reliability assessments, Critical Infrastructure Protection
standards, and other issues relating to the security and reliability of the electric
transmission grid. She also advises on Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration (PHMSA) legal matters to help ensure natural gas pipeline safety in
Illinois.
Prior to joining the Commission, Ms. Ericson practiced energy and environmental
regulatory law in Washington, DC. She served in the Office of General Counsel at
FERC, as a trial attorney in the Office of Hydroelectric and Electric Litigation and as an
advisory attorney in the Office of Hydroelectric Licensing. Ms. Ericson also practiced in
the private sector as a Senior Associate with Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and
Hand, as well as Swidler, Berlin, Shereff, Friedman, LLP. In that capacity, she
represented a wide array of clients, including public utilities, independent system
operators, municipalities and electric cooperatives.
Ms. Ericson has degrees from Duke University, the University of Paris IV, Sorbonne, and
Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. She is licensed in Illinois and the
District of Columbia and is admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia and the Seventh Circuits. She serves on the Board of Directors for
the Charitable Foundation of the Energy Bar Association, and has completed three year
terms serving on the Boards of Directors of both the Foundation of the Energy Law
Journal (ELJ) and the national Energy Bar Association (EBA). She has served as the
International Articles Editor on the ELJ Editorial Board since 2009. She has also served
on the Board of Directors for the EBA, Midwest Chapter, since 2003, which has included
completion of terms as President (2007-2008), Vice President (2006-2007), and
Secretary/Treasurer (2005-2006). She is a member of the National Association of
Regulatory Commissioners (NARUC) Staff Subcommittees on Critical Infrastructure and
Electricity. She is also a member of the Duke University Alumni Admissions Advisory
Committee.
Asim Z. Haque
Term ends April 10, 2016
CommissionerAsimZ.HaquewasappointedtothePublicUtilities
CommissionofOhiobyGovernorJohnKasichin2013,andcurrentlyserves
asvice‐chairman.
CommissionerHaque,anattorney,beganhisprofessionalcareeratIceMiller
LLP(f/k/aSchottenstein,Zox&DunnCo.LPA)whereherepresenteda
broadspectrumofclientsinenergyandutilitymatters.Herepresented
municipalitiesandtheirresidents,businesses,tradeassociationsand
competitiveretailerswhileatIceMillerandrepresentedmanyoftheseclientsegmentsin
proceedingsbeforetheCommission.
AftersixyearsofpracticingatIceMiller,CommissionerHaquetookapositionaslegalcounselfor
HondaNorthAmerica,Inc.Therehecontinuedtopracticewithintheenergyandutilityspace,also
representingHonda’sinterestsbeforetheCommission.CommissionerHaquecurrentlyserveson
theBoardofDirectorsandboththeGasCommitteeandCriticalInfrastructureCommitteeatthe
NationalAssociationofRegulatoryUtilityCommissioners(NARUC),andisamemberoftheBoard
ofDirectorsoftheMid‐AtlanticConferenceofRegulatoryUtilitiesCommissioners
(MACRUC).CommissionerHaquealsoservesontheMemberRepresentativeCommitteeofthe
NorthAmericanElectricReliabilityCorporation(NERC).
CommissionerHaqueispassionateaboutpublicserviceandisheavilyinvolvedinhislocal
community.Heservesaspresidentoftheboardofdirectorsofthenon‐profitorganization
CommunityResearchPartners.HeisthepresidentofTheColumbusAcademyAlumniBoardand
servesontheAcademy’sBoardofTrustees.HeisalsoagraduateoftheFBICitizensAcademy,and
hasbeenamentorintheBigBrothers/BigSistersschool‐basedmentorprogram.
CommissionerHaqueisagraduateofCaseWesternReserveUniversitywherehereceiveda
bachelorsdegreeinchemistryandpoliticalscience,andisalsoagraduateofTheOhioState
UniversityMoritzCollegeofLaw.HegraduatedcumlaudewithdepartmenthonorsfromCase,and
hasbeenselectedasanOhioSuperLawyersRisingStarbySuperLawyersMagazineonmultiple
occasions.
CommissionerHaqueresidesinSpringfield(ClarkCounty)withhiswifeDr.HumaAnsariHaque.
180 East Broad Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215-3793
(614) 466-3016
www.PUCO.ohio.gov
Commissioner Sherina E. Maye
Commissioner Sherina E. Maye was appointed by Governor Pat Quinn on February 25, 2013 to a five
year term on the Illinois Commerce Commission. This appointment was historical as she was the
youngest commissioner ever appointed in the state of Illinois. Prior to her appointment, Commissioner
Maye previously practiced as an attorney with the highly ranked international law firm, Locke Lord LLP,
where she focused on all aspects of consumer finance litigation. Additionally, she sits on several boards
including the National Executive Board of Delta Sigma Theta as the Chair of the Collegiate Transition
Taskforce and on the Founding Board of Directors of the Great Lakes Academy Charter School. She also
spends time volunteering with and mentoring underprivileged youth within the Chicago community.
Commissioner Maye is a member of the Leadership Greater Chicago Fellows Class of 2015 as well as the
Lake Shore chapter of the Links, Inc. Commissioner Maye earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology
from Spelman College, cum laude, and her Juris Doctorate from Howard University School of Law in
Washington D.C where she was a merit scholar.
Since her appointment to the ICC, Commissioner Maye has become active in the National Association for
Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) as a member of the Water Committee and the Subcommittee
on Education and Research. Additionally, she has also taken an interest in critical infrastructure issues
with a focus on cyber security.
Phillip M. “Doc” Mueller is Senior Vice president – Government Affairs & Management
Services at IMEA. In his position, he is responsible for overseeing all operations related to
member relations, government relations and public communications for IMEA, as well as for
the Illinois Public Energy Agency (IPEA) and the Illinois Municipal Utilities Association
(IMUA). Mueller helps oversee the day-to-day operation of IMUA and IPEA and assists all three
organizations in setting policy on a wide variety of utility issues on both the state and federal
levels and works directly with lawmakers and regulators on issues of interest to IMEA and IMUA
membership. He is a member of the board of directors of the American Public Gas Association
and is a board member and past chair of the Illinois Energy Education Council, which is a
nationwide safety and education organization. He works closely with the American Public
Power Association and the American Public Gas Association on federal utility issues. Prior to
coming to IMEA in 1988, Mueller was press secretary for the Illinois Attorney General and prior
to that a reporter and broadcaster for more than a decade.
Statement—Richard A. Posner
Posner is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law
School. After graduating from Yale College and Harvard Law
School, he clerked for Justice Brennan of the Supreme Court (1962
Term), and then had several government jobs including assistant
to the Solicitor General of the United States. He began law teaching at Stanford in 1968 and the following year joined the University of Chicago Law School faculty as professor of law, in which position he served until being appointed to the Seventh Circuit in
1981. He was chief judge of the court from 1993 to 2000. He has
written many books and articles, mainly but not only dealing with
the application of economics to law.
February 2015
David B. Raskin
Partner
draskin@steptoe.com
1330 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
+1 202 429 6254 direct
Dave Raskin is a partner in Steptoe's Washington office, where he practices in
the electric power industry. He has represented electric clients before the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for 35 years in cases involving mergers
and acquisitions, generation and transmission projects, industry restructuring,
wholesale power and transmission service rates, transmission access, wholesale
market rules in organized (RTO) markets and elsewhere, contract disputes, fuel
procurement practices, antitrust issues, and stranded investment. Mr. Raskin
regularly advises clients on compliance matters relating to FERC rules and
regulations. He has been lead trial counsel in dozens of FERC proceedings.
Mr. Raskin has also negotiated and helped structure numerous complex bulk
power and transmission service transactions and joint projects to construct and
operate transmission lines and generating facilities. He regularly advises clients
on the regulatory and commercial aspects of transactions involving the sale and
delivery of electric power and on issues associated with the restructuring of the
electric utility industry. Mr. Raskin has also represented clients in proceedings
before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission concerning the licensing and
operation of nuclear power plants.
Noteworthy
Listed in Band 1 for Chambers Global and Chambers USA in Energy:
Electricity, Regulatory & Litigation
Listed in Who's Who Legal for Energy
Ranked in Legal 500 US for Energy: Transaction and Regulatory
Listed in Best Lawyers in America for Energy and Natural Resources Law
Executive Committee, Jewish Foundation for Group Homes, one of the
nation’s preeminent organizations providing independent housing
opportunities for disabled citizens.
Mark R. Schuling
Iowa Consumer Advocate
Office of the Consumer Advocate
Mr. Schuling received his law degree from Drake University in 1980. He was appointed by Iowa
Attorney General Tom Miller as the Iowa Consumer Advocate in January 2011. He was
previously employed as an Assistant Attorney General representing the Iowa Department of
Revenue, a practicing attorney for twenty-one years with the Brick, Gentry, Bowers, Swartz,
Stoltze, Schuling & Levis law firm in Des Moines, and served as Director of the Iowa
Department of Revenue from 2005 to 2011 under Governors Tom Vilsack and Chet Culver. Mr.
Schuling has experience and expertise in federal and state law, utility and telecommunications
matters, and general civil law.
Mr. Schuling is also a Certified Public Accountant, a past president of the Federation of Tax
Administrators (FTA), and has spoken to numerous groups and associations on tax, utility and
business matters. He is a member of several energy related groups including serving as a Board
Member of the National Association of State Consumer Advocates, an Advisory Board Member
to the Financial Research Institute located at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri,
and as an Advisory Council Member to the Center for Public Utilities, located in New Mexico
State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Additionally, he is the Chair of the Government
Practice Section of the Iowa State Bar Association.
STACY J. STOTTS
Partner
stacy.stotts@stinsonleonard.com
816.691.3363
1201 Walnut St.
Suite 2900
Kansas City, MO 64106
Stacy Stotts is a member of the Environment and Natural Resources Division and has a
wide variety of experience in representing clients in environmental regulatory and
administrative matters, enforcement matters, private party suits, compliance counseling,
and corporate and property transactions. She has represented clients in the areas of air,
water, superfund and hazardous waste law. Her work also includes assisting clients in
commenting on proposed agency rulemakings.
PRACTICE AREAS
• Environmental and Natural
Resources
• Environmental Counseling
• Mining and Mineral Management
EDUCATION
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
• Stacy's work has been with the mining industry, electric utility industry, transportation
industry, agribusiness (including ethanol producers), manufacturing companies, chemical
companies, municipalities and oil and gas companies.
• She has significant experience representing clients regarding compliance and
enforcement matters related to the New Source Review, Hazardous Air Pollutant
• Lewis and Clark Northwestern
College of Law, LL.M. in
Environmental and Natural
Resources Law
• Chicago-Kent College, J.D., with
honors and recipient of
Environmental Law certificate,
1995
• University of Kansas, B.A., 1991
(MACT), and New Source Performance Standard programs under the Clean Air Act.
• Stacy also has specific expertise negotiating with both the state and federal air planning
entities on behalf of clients to negotiate air State Implementation Plans and RACT and
RACM for facilities located in nonattainment areas for CAA criterion and precursor
pollutants.
• She has been involved in numerous civil and administrative enforcement matters before
Department of Justice and EPA Region VII resolving alleged violations of air, water, and
hazardous waste laws, including resolving superfund liability issues. These matters have
also included assisting clients in negotiating administrative orders on consent to
remediate contaminated properties under CERCLA and RCRA.
• She has been involved in various private party civil suits to recover remedial response
costs under CERCLA, common law and contractual indemnification, and other common
law claims
RECOGNITIONS
• Listed in the 2013-2015 editions of The Best Lawyers in America for Environmental Law.
• Named to the "40 Under 40" class by Ingram's, Kansas City Business Magazine in 2009.
This class recognizes the most influential accomplished leaders of business, government
and community in Kansas City.
• Recognized from 2009 to present in the Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for
Business for environment.
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ADMISSIONS
• Missouri, 1998
• Kansas, 1999
Stacy J. Stotts
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES
• Board Member (current) Midwest Air Waste Management Association
• American Bar Association, Section on Energy and Environment, 1998-current
o
o
Former Vice Chair, Hazardous Waste Committee
Former Section Coordinator, Year in Review Publication
• Kansas Bar Association (current)
• The Missouri Bar (current)
• The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Environmental Committee
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Former Section Chair
• Kansas City Chamber Air Quality Committee
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Former Legal Chair
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Paul M. Tiao
Partner
PRACTICES
Cyber Investigation and Privacy
Litigation
Global Privacy and Cybersecurity
Data Breach
Homeland Security
White Collar Defense and Internal
Investigations
Congressional Investigations
Energy Sector Security Team
CONTACT
ptiao@hunton.com
Washington, DC
p 202.955.1618
f 202.778.2201
EDUCATION
JD, Columbia University Law
School, Harlan Fiske Stone
Scholar, 1995
MPA, Woodrow Wilson School for
Public and International Affairs,
Princeton University, Herman
Somers Award, 1995
BS, Electrical Engineering and
Premed, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, 1989
BAR ADMISSIONS
District of Columbia
Maryland
BLOGS
Privacy & Information Security
Law Blog
With experience in government and the private sector, Paul
brings in-depth knowledge on cybersecurity, investigation and
national security issues.
Paul is a partner in the firm's Washington office. His practice focuses on
investigations, litigation, regulations, policy and legislation relating to a wide
range of homeland security and privacy issues, including cyber intrusions, data
breaches, intellectual property violations, criminal cases, electronic surveillance,
FOIA, and data privacy. Paul regularly advises clients based in Northern Virginia,
and frequently works closely with colleagues in the McLean and Richmond
offices on cybersecurity, physical security, insurance relating to physical and
cyber threats, the SAFETY Act and other issues.
Prior to joining Hunton & Williams, Paul served as Special Counsel and then
Senior Counselor for Cybersecurity and Technology to the Director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. In that position, he advised the FBI Director on
operational, policy and legal issues, and represented the FBI in discussions with
other agencies, the White House, Congress and industry.
Prior to the FBI, Paul served as Judiciary Committee Counsel to the Assistant
Majority Leader in the US Senate, where he wrote legislation and provided advice
on criminal and national security issues. He is a former Assistant US Attorney in
the District of Maryland. At the US Attorney's Office, Paul investigated and
prosecuted cyber intrusions, intellectual property violations, white collar fraud,
organized crime, drug trafficking and violent crimes. He also served as the
coordinator of computer hacking and intellectual property cases.
Paul began his career as a law clerk for the Honorable Mary Schroeder of the
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then served as a trial attorney in
the honors program of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. In
between stints in the government, he was in private practice at a large law firm
handling civil and criminal litigation matters involving complex technology.
Paul is an adjunct professor of cybersecurity law and policy at George
Washington University, and an instructor at the National Institute for Trial
Advocacy. He also was recently appointed by Governor Terry McAuliffe to serve
on the Virginia Cyber Security Commission, a group established by executive
order to bring public and private sector experts together to make
recommendations on how to make Virginia a leader in cybersecurity.
Relevant Experience
Hunton & Williams LLP
Assisted critical infrastructure companies in reducing cybersecurity risk by
improving governance structure, conducting inventory of sensitive data and
networks, and strengthening network security policies and practices.
Provided extensive legal and operational advice to major electric utility
companies on cybersecurity information-sharing and collaboration
opportunities with the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Department
of Energy, and assisted in negotiating public-private partnership agreements
with all three agencies.
Assisted critical infrastructure companies with various aspects of data breach
response, including the internal forensic investigation, liaison with the FBI and
US Secret Service, analysis of breach notification obligations, and the
response to congressional inquiries.
Assisted a Fortune 50 critical infrastructure company in responding to a
congressional inquiry regarding a cybersecurity incident.
Advised major critical infrastructure company on reducing the potential legal
liability associated with a terrorist attack by obtaining a certification or
designation for a physical or cyber security system under the Support AntiTerrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies (SAFETY) Act.
Advised a major energy pipeline company on a homeland security issue before
the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
Assisted major critical infrastructure companies on various aspects of state
and federal Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA), including the applicability of
exemptions to disclosure based on trade secrets, confidential commercial or
financial information, law enforcement proceedings, statutory non-disclosure
requirements, personal privacy, and other grounds. Represented clients in
negotiations with various federal agencies over the applicability of certain FOIA
exemptions, and prepared extensive redactions and legal objections to an
agency’s proposed release of documents under FOIA. Successfully
persuaded agency to adopt requested redactions to documents prior to
release.
Advised clients on US government investigative authority under the Patriot Act,
FISA, FISA Amendments Act, Wiretap Act, ECPA and other law enforcement
and national security laws, jurisdictional issues relating to the US
Government’s exercise of its investigative authority, and the implications of
their corporate structure, contractual relationships, and data control
arrangements on the US Government’s exercise of jurisdiction.
Advised Fortune 100 companies on policy, regulatory and legislative
developments relating to cybersecurity and national security.
Successfully tried a dozen federal jury trials involving white collar fraud,
organized crime, narcotics trafficking and violent crimes, and defended the
results in the US Courts of Appeals.
Memberships
Appointed Member, Virginia Cyber Security Commission
Appointed Member, Montgomery County Criminal Justice
Coordinating Commission
Hunton & Williams LLP
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News
Hunton & Williams Launches Energy Sector Security Team, January 20, 2015
Obama’s Cybersecurity Proposals – A Move in the Right Direction, Sotto and
Tiao Explain to The Hill, January 20, 2015
Paul Tiao Tells POLITICO FBI Made the Right Call Hearing Security Firm’s
Sony Hack Findings, December 29, 2014
Hunton & Williams LLP’s Data Protection Practice Lauded by Chambers UK
and Legal 500 UK, November 24, 2014
Paul Tiao Discusses Chinese Cyber Criminals, Government Ties, November
1, 2014
Alerts
Privacy and Information Security Law Blog Update, January 2015
Privacy and Information Security Law Blog Update, December 2014
Congress Takes Action on Stalled Cybersecurity Legislation in Final Days of
the 113th Congress, December 18, 2014
Privacy and Information Security Law Blog Update, November 2014
Privacy and Information Security Law Blog Update, October 2014
Publications
Co-author, Congress Surprisingly Passes Several Cybersecurity Bills,
Law360, December 18, 2014
Co-author, Antitrust Guidance On Cybersecurity Reaffirms Old Approach,
Law360, April 16, 2014
Author, Grid vulnerability leak threatens homeland security cooperation,
Energy Daily, April 3, 2014
Author, National Security at Risk Thanks to Disclosure of Grid Vulnerabilities,
IntelligentUtility Update, March 19, 2014
“How Can We Realistically Prep For A Cyber Attack?”: Paul Tiao’s
Commentary on Nat Geo's Movie “American Blackout,” National Geographic
TV Blogs, October 29, 2013
Events
Speaker, Cyber Policy and Legal Environment, 2014 Edison Electric Institute
Cybersecurity Law Conference, October 24, 2014
Speaker, Global payments—What challenges are ahead? In U.S., U.K., and
EU International payments?, Financial Services Roundtable’s Global Financial
Conference, October 9, 2014
Speaker, Hot Topics in Cybersecurity & Privacy, Hunton & Williams LLP’s
IT/Procurement Leadership Forum, Washington, DC, October 8, 2014
Speaker, U.S. and Global Policy Landscape, PLI’s Cybersecurity 2014:
Managing the Risk, September 10, 2014
Speaker, Hot Topics in Cybersecurity & Privacy, Hunton & Williams LLP’s
Hunton & Williams LLP