We are looking for Energy & Utilities Regulatory Attorney candidates for a project delivered through the hiring partner.
What you'll do
- Contribute expert-level legal reasoning on energy and utilities regulatory questions, including rate design, tariff structure, and compliance obligations.
- Work through realistic regulatory scenarios drawn from FERC, state PUC, and ISO/RTO practice, explaining the analysis behind your conclusions.
- Identify where a question is unsettled, jurisdictionally contested, or turns on facts that change the answer.
- Review and validate work from other contributors for legal accuracy and clarity of reasoning.
- Document your reasoning clearly, so the analysis is as useful as the conclusion.
- Flag ambiguous or poorly framed scenarios to project coordinators instead of resolving them silently.
- Deliver assigned work on schedule and at the required quality level.
What you need
- active U.S. bar license
- substantive experience advising utilities, independent power producers, or energy regulators on rate design, market structure, and regulatory compliance.
- J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and active U.S. bar admission.
- 4+ years of substantive energy and utilities regulatory practice — hands-on, not supervisory-only or adjacent exposure.
- A corporate law foundation, ideally built at a Vault 100 firm.
Expertise
FERC and State PUC Practiceenergy-and-utilities-regulationRegulatory Judgment Under Conflicting RulesTransactional Energy Work
RequiredAlso useful
Also listed: attention to detail.
Who you work with
Project and contracting process: the hiring partner. Applications continue on the provider's website.
Pay and hours
This role pays $140–$400/hr. The work is remote. That is about 145% above the $110 an hour median for law roles open now.
Who can apply from where
The provider lists this role as open worldwide. With a profile, Tier1 checks your country and languages against this role and every other before you apply.