Bradley D. Jackson is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and co-chair of the firm's Energy Industry Team. He is also a member of the Health Care Industry Team.
Mr. Jackson's energy practice includes the regulatory and transactional aspects of facility siting and development; power plant and portfolio acquisitions; the organization and operation of non-traditional energy companies, including generation and transmission companies, hydroelectric licensing and regulation; and traditional utility rate and policy making. He also oversees a telecommunications practice that includes regulation of price-regulated and traditional rate of return regulated ILECs, certification and regulation of CLECs, interconnection, and small telco regulation.
Mr. Jackson has been named the Best Lawyers® 2011 Madison Energy Lawyer of the Year and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of energy law for over 10 years. In 2007 and 2010, he was named as a BTI Client Service All-Star, an elite group of attorneys nominated solely and exclusively by clients in BTI's independent study as delivering the absolute best in client service. In addition, Mr. Jackson has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system and was selected for inclusion in the 2005, 2007 - 2009 and 2011 lists of Wisconsin Super Lawyers®.
Before joining Foley, Mr. Jackson was a trial attorney with the Land and Natural Resources Section of the United States Department of Justice. Representations included Departments of the Interior, Navy and Agriculture. Practice areas included natural resources, water rights, property, and Indian law.
Mr. Jackson received his J.D. degree, with honors, from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. in political science, with honors, from Kalamazoo College. While in law school, Mr. Jackson was a board member of the University of Michigan's Journal of Law Reform. He was also a clinician at the Great Lakes Natural Resource Center operated by the National Wildlife Federation. He is co-author of M. Van Putten & B. Jackson, "The Dilution of the Clean Water Act," 19 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 863 (1986).
Mr. Jackson is admitted to practice in Wisconsin, Michigan and before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.