Associate - Energy

Founded in 1856, Harris Beach and its subsidiaries provide a full range of legal and professional services for clients across New York state, as well as nationally and internationally. Harris Beach is among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal. Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately-held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, not-for-profit organizations and individuals. Principal industries Harris Beach represents include education, energy, financial, food and beverage, health care, insurance, manufacturing, medical and life sciences, real estate developers, and state and local governments and authorities. The firm’s more than 200 lawyers practice among offices throughout New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Uniondale, Washington, D.C. and White Plains, as well as in New Haven, Connecticut and Newark, New Jersey.

Location:  Albany, NY preferred; Open to Long Island, NY

Description:   Harris Beach PLLC’s Energy Industry Team continues to grow and is looking to add depth and more experience to our Team. Specifically, we are seeking candidates to work with other members of our Team and our corporate and individual clients on a wide range of matters involving project development and siting, regulatory compliance, civil and administrative enforcement proceedings, and dispute resolution/litigation. Our types of clients are wide ranging and include electric generation facility owners, battery energy storage facility owners, electric and gas transmission facility owners, water and gas utilities, submeters of electricity, energy service companies, and large users of electricity and gas.

Responsibilities:

• Representing clients with regulatory matters before state and federal administrative agencies


• Planning and execution of pre-application strategy, drafting and filing application documents, and permitting for projects before various state and federal regulatory agencies


• Research federal and state statutes and agency regulations/orders affecting regulated industries and draft summary memoranda


• Draft administrative petitions and related filings, comments to administrative agencies, complaints/answers, memoranda of law, discovery demands/responses

Qualifications:

• 1-5+ years of general regulatory and/or litigation experience; energy experience preferred but not required


• Admitted in New York (or ability to waive in)


• Juris Doctorate from ABA accredited law school required


• Possess the ability to balance multiple priorities and be adaptable and responsive in a fast-paced, dynamic, team-oriented environment

• Excellent research, writing and verbal communication skills


• Organized with excellent attention to detail


• Ability to work with diverse personalities within various levels of our clients’ and firm’s organization


• Military experience welcome

Salary information below will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position and geographic locations.

Albany, NY: $113,000 - $130,000

Uniondale, NY: $118,000 - $137,000

Harris Beach is committed to an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from diverse candidates. Harris Beach PLLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The firm’s policy prohibiting unlawful discrimination applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, placement, assignment of duties, training, promotion, compensation & benefits and termination. It is the policy of Harris Beach PLLC that all applicants and employees enjoy a positive, respectful and productive work environment, free from behavior, actions or language constituting unlawful harassment. Accordingly, harassment or discrimination of any kind based on an individual’s race or color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, carrier status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, creed, domestic violence victim status or any other legally protected status is strictly prohibited. Harris Beach complies with the provisions of the Human Rights Law, all other State and Federal statutory and constitutional non-discrimination provisions including non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.