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Assistant General Counsel – (Litigation) – Portland, OR – #113175 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

March 20, 2025
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PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion.

General Purpose

Responsible for handling the most complex legal matters and projects associated with a specific legal specialization(s).  This may include, but is not limited to state and federal litigation.  Represents the company in court and formal hearings.  State regulatory/agency hearings experience a plus.  Manages attorneys and other legal staff as appropriate.

Responsibilities

•    Handle complex legal matters and projects associated with a specific legal specialization including but not limited to state and federal litigation in Oregon, Washington and/or California.
•    Represent the company in informal and formal settlement proceedings, discovery matters, state and federal court and formal hearings.
•    Responsible for directing a legal segment with multiple specialized areas including personal injury and property damage claims, wildfire litigation, environmental and natural resource damages, construction, right of way and contractual disputes. 
•    Experience in state public utility commission administrative hearings a plus.

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D.C. Circuit Halts Clean Power Plan, Mercury Rule Litigation

April 29, 2017
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In two separate actions over the past 24 hours, the D.C. Circuit granted the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) request to suspend cases challenging the Clean Power Plan and the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS).

 

The orders are the latest in a series of similar actions over the past month by the D.C. Circuit that paused other major cases challenging Obama-era environmental rules to give the Trump administration more time to review them.

On April 11, the court granted the EPA’s motion to indefinitely delay a decision on challenges to the agency’s 2015 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone in Murray Energy Corp. v. EPA (No. 15-1385). On April 24, it shelved oral arguments in challenges to the EPA’s rule that requires 36 states to revise emissions exemptions in their state implementation plans for startup, shutdown, and malfunction events at power plants and other facilities. That case, Walter Coke, Inc., et al v. EPA (No. 15-1166), may be reopened depending on the action the EPA decides to take.…

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