Overview
(April 29, 2024, Washington, DC) – The members of the Energy Bar Association (EBA) elected Steptoe associate Karen Bruni as a director to the EBA Board of Directors. The election took place at EBA's Annual Meeting, held in Washington DC on April 25-26, 2024. The event was attended by approximately 500 energy law and policy professionals.
EBA is an international, non-profit association of attorneys, non-attorney professionals, and students active in all areas of energy law. The organization promotes the professional excellence and ethical integrity of its members in the practice, administration, and development of energy laws, regulations and policies. EBA provides superior educational programming, networking opportunities, and information resources. For more information, visit EBA's website.
Bruni focuses her energy practice on the regulation of electric and natural gas utilities by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). She has successfully worked on complex regulatory, enforcement, and compliance matters related to transmission and interconnection issues, tariff compliance, utility mergers and asset acquisitions, cost-of-service, rate design, and cost allocation. Additionally, Bruni has counseled electric utilities before federal courts in litigations related to enforcement and antitrust matters.
About Steptoe
In more than 110 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and other professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington. For more information, visit www.steptoe.com.
The diversity of the firm is a critical factor in its success. The firm’s chair is a woman; the majority of the firm’s elected executive committee is female; the majority of Steptoe's ten offices are managed by women; and the majority of Steptoe’s practice groups have women as leaders. The firm's six-person professional business services leadership is equally diverse, with two women of color, and other leaders who openly identify as LGBTQ+.
