Dan Clearfield concentrates his practice in the areas of utility, energy and communications regulatory litigation, administrative litigation, emerging gaming issues and government relations. Prior to entering private practice, he served as Executive Deputy Attorney General in the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office and Senior Assistant Consumer Advocate in the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate.
Representative Matters
· Represents the nation's largest municipally owned natural gas distribution company in emergency and general rate cases, gas cost rate and conservation proceedings and numerous other PUC cases;
· Represents leading electric generation suppliers in licensing and regulatory issues, electric distribution default service procurement and pricing cases, market opening proceedings and utility merger proceedings;
· Represented natural gas producers association in proceedings to set the rates, terms and conditions for local gas gathering and other services;
· Represented cogenerators in administrative litigation to determine the ownership of Renewable Energy Credits under the Pennsylvania Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act;
· Represented Adams County Pennsylvania biomass energy project in obtaining net-metering and interconnection agreements from local utility;
· Acted as regulatory counsel to international sovereign fund in acquisition of major interest in Pennsylvania electric utility.
Professional Affiliations
Executive Deputy Attorney General and Director of the Public Protection Division for the Pennsylvania
Office of Attorney General, 1990-1994
Senior Asst. Consumer Advocate, PA Office of Consumer Advocate 1987 - 1990
Community Involvement
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg
Co-Chair of the Federation's Strategic Planning Committee
Board of Directors, Jewish Home of Harrisburg
Special Recognition
Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America
Articles/Speeches/Presentations
· "Electric Competition: What's in the Contract?" co-authored with Carl Shultz, The Legal Intelligencer, July 2011.
· "The Low Carb(on) Diet. Will Marcellus Shale be the Magic Pill to Quench Our Domestic Hunger?" presented at the 29th National Regulatory Conference, May 2011.
· "Legal Issues Associated with Marcellus Shale Development," co-presented at Eckert Seamans' Continuing Legal Education Seminar, August 2010.
· "Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Jurisdiction Over Marcellus Shale "Midstream" Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines Is In Question," Eckert Seamans' Energy Alert, February 2010.
· "Business Strategies and Opportunities from Electric Competition," co-authored with Carl Shultz, published in insidePOLICY, November 2009.
· "What to do When the Electric Rate Caps Come Off in Pennsylvania ," co-presented with Carl Shultz, November 2009.
· "Public Utility Law Primer," Eckert Seamans' Continuing Legal Education program, August 2009.
· "Navigating the Alternative Energy Investment Act," Pennsylvania Bar Institute Continuing Legal Education Seminar, 2008.
· "Public Utility Bench-Bar Conference - Lobbying by Lawyers," Pennsylvania Bar Institute Continuing Legal Education Seminar, 2006.
· " Pennsylvania Public Utility Law Conference - Natural Gas Pricing Issues," Pennsylvania Bar Institute Continuing Legal Education Seminar, 2005.