Areas of practice
Energy Transactions
Public Finance
Environmental Matters

Education
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1980, cum laude

University of Vermont, B.A., 1974, cum laude, 1971

HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
Phi Beta Kappa
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in the World
Who's Who in American Law

BAR MEMBERSHIP
District of Columbia

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Energy Bar Association

James R. Choukas-Bradley

Mr. Choukas-Bradley is a Principal in the firm. He specializes in counseling and representing public gas systems, individually and in groups, in their dealings with pipelines, energy suppliers and customers.

Prior to entering law school, Mr. Choukas-Bradley was a newspaper reporter and editor, a small business owner, and assistant to the city manager of a city of 15,000 people in New Hampshire. After law school, he joined Miller, Balis & O'Neil, P.C. as an associate, and was elected a Principal in 1984.

Mr. Choukas-Bradley is a native of Hartford, Connecticut, and lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife and two children.

Energy Transactions
Mr. Choukas-Bradley has been a pioneer and leading practitioner in helping public gas systems operate in the deregulated gas industry, including formation of joint action agencies, development of financed natural gas supply acquisition programs and projects, development of publicly-owned natural gas pipeline projects to attach competitive gas supplies, and negotiation of market-leading supply and capacity management transactions.

He is General Counsel of the Tennessee Energy Acquisition Corporation, counsel to other joint action agencies, and counsel to the Natural Gas acquisition Corporation of the City of Clarksville, Tennessee. He represents public gas systems in Tennessee served by Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company in proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the federal appellate courts.