Holland & Hart LLP

Regional interconnectivity, emerging competition, and environmental pressures often make it difficult to navigate between traditional regulatory systems and modern electric markets.  In this unpredictable environment, having an effective advocate in your corner is key.

Since the early 1980s Holland & Hart attorneys have successfully represented clients in connection with a wide variety of cutting-edge issues involving the electric utility industry.  Our practice has included not only regulatory issues before state utility commissions throughout the Western United States, but also state legislative and federal regulatory issues affecting the entire electric industry.

At the core of Holland & Hart's electric regulatory practice is our representation of large industrial electric consumers.  Holland & Hart founded and continues to represent large industrial electic consumer groups in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, New Mexico and Utah.  We also represent several of the largest companies in the world.

Since 2000, we have successfully expanded this core practice to include representatation of other electric consumers.  Our Colorado group has included metropolitan school districts, large universities, and nationally recognized consumer organizations.  Our lawyers also serve as directors and provide legal assistance to low-income energy assistance groups.  Building alliances and coalitions have enabled Holland & Hart to continue its outstanding track record before public utility commissions and legislatures.

We also represent some of the world's largest independent power producers.  When an independent power producer needs to finalize a deal with a utility or needs regulatory intervention, we have the relationships and experience needed.  We have represented independent power producers before regulatory commissions in Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming.

Holland & Hart's Statement of Commitment to Diversity
We are proud of our tradition of fostering and maintaining a work environment in which the diversity of each individual is valued and celebrated. We believe that the contributions of each individual are essential to our continued growth and to our ultimate goal of providing excellent quality legal services to our clients, with greater creativity and innovation. We are committed to taking full advantage of the rich backgrounds and abilities of our people and to promoting a greater diversity whenever and wherever possible.

Diversity Pledge
Holland & Hart is committed to promoting diversity by:

• Making every possible effort to recruit, hire, retain, and promote diverse persons at all levels of employment.
• Promoting greater sensitivity to the value of racial, ethnic and other forms of diversity, through diversity and sensitivity coaching or training for law firm members.
• Inviting to partnership diverse attorneys who meet the requisite criteria.

Diversity Initiatives
The following are additional examples of our commitment and efforts toward supporting and achieving diversity:

• We make a conscious effort to ensure that women and diverse attorneys are included as voting members of our committees of importance within the firm.
• We work closely with law school deans and placement directors in an effort to identify women and diverse law students who are interested in working at Holland & Hart.
• Holland & Hart offers medical and other benefits to partners of gay and lesbian employees on the same terms as it does to spouses of employees.
• We created an Indian Law Practice Group and actively recruited Native American law students and lateral hires.
• Each year we contribute to such scholarship funds as the Colorado Native American Indian Scholarship Fund, the Sam Cary Scholarship Endowment Fund, the Colorado Asian American Bar Scholarship Fund, the Colorado Hispanic Bar Scholarship Fund, and the Colorado Women's Bar Association Scholarship Fund.
• In partnership with the University of Idaho School of Law, we sponsor a "Law by Day, Jazz by Night" each year for undergraduate minority students who have an interest in law.
• We took a leadership role in organizing and supporting the Colorado Pledge Group's Minority First Year Law Student Summer Clerk Program. Through this program, law firms agreed to add at least one diverse first year law student to their summer clerk program.
• We were involved in the creation of the Cross-Professional Business Networking Group, where diverse attorneys in our community can meet and network with non-attorney professionals of color. We view this as a way to help diverse attorneys increase their business development possibilities.

For more information regarding Holland & Hart's commitment to diversity, please contact Peter Houtsma at (303) 295-8259.