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Joe Stevens has been practicing law since 1969 from the firm's New York and Washington offices. Mr. Stevens was a partner of the firm from 1975 through 1998, and during the period 1982 through 1989 served as head of the firm's Energy and Corporate and Commercial Practice Groups. During that time, Mr. Stevens has specialized in natural gas and energy related matters at both the state and federal levels before various state agencies, the Federal Power Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy, and courts in rate, certificate, siting, right-of-way acquisition, abandonment, import/export and rulemaking matters. Mr. Stevens has a national reputation, and has frequently lectured at functions sponsored by the Public Utility Section of the American Bar Association, the Federal Energy Bar Association, the Public Utility Law Committee of the New York Bar Association, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, and the American Gas Association on various topics, including gas pipeline cost allocations and classification, curtailment issues, rate design, producer regulation, management audits and prudence investigations, liquid petroleum feedstock issues, gas transportation issues, utility diversification, federal and state siting regulation and permitting of energy projects, and other current issues involving energy law. Mr. Stevens counsels and assists state and federally-regulated enterprises, as well as non-regulated energy companies with supply, service, and marketing strategies and contracts, rate and regulatory issues, energy project development and structuring, permitting and land acquisition, construction programs, related commercial transactions and tax matters, and administrative and appellate litigation. | 