Regulatory Economics & Litigation Support

Strategy, Focus, and Advocacy

LAI develops cutting edge solutions to complex challenges in the energy marketplace. Our creative expertise forms the basis for effectively supporting our clients' regulatory and litigation strategies. We combine state-of-the-art analytic capabilities in power systems and transmission engineering, pipeline transportation and storage management, rate design, and regulatory compliance analysis. Mr. Levitan, for one, has successfully testified in federal and state courts as well as before the American Arbirtration Association on contract disputes. On behalf of utilities, end-users, pipeline companies, and Regional Transmission Organizationss, our consultants have worked closely with counsel on matters pertaining to industry competition, finance, and contract administration. Pipeline companies and local distribution companies rely on LAI to support certificate applications requiring testimony and expert opinions.

Lawyers have relied on LAI to separate fact from fiction as well as to develop evidence, exhibits and expert opinions. LAI's litigation support work spans bankruptcy issues, debt default, breach of fiduciary obligation, asset-related due diligence, as well as contract restructuring, arbitration, and litigation.

LAI's regulatory economics and litigation support services include:

• Damage calculations, including financial impairment to OSW developers resulting from the Federal government's stop work orders
• Long term PPA contract disputes
• Testimony to support rate filings and interventions
• Market power studies
• Asset valuation
• Fuel and electricity price forecasts