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Alan Holman chairs Locke Lord’s Administrative & Regulatory Practice Group and is the firm’s senior administrative and regulatory attorney. He practices public utility, energy, telecommunications, environmental, and general administrative law. In the electric utility area, he represents the third largest retail electric provider in Texas, as well as industrial corporations, cooperative and municipal utilities, and owners, operators, and developers of energy projects on a broad range of project development, ratemaking, rulemaking, certification, regulatory compliance, and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions. In the area of gas utility regulation, he serves as outside regulatory counsel to the nation’s largest gas-only local distribution company (LDC) and to Texas’ third and fourth largest LDCs. In the area of telecommunications, he served as Texas regulatory counsel to the nation’s second largest interexchange carrier, as well as its local service affiliate, on regulatory, arbitration, and related litigation and business matters. He also represents real estate developers, large land owners, and public and private water and sewer utilities. Mr. Holman represents these varied interests before the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the Railroad Commission of Texas, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and in the trial and appellate courts, both state and federal. Mr. Holman’s administrative experience includes environmental law as well as public utility regulation and competition. His practice also extends to the legislative arena, including lobbying at the state and local levels. Before entering private practice, Mr. Holman was legal counsel to the Texas Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs (1975-77), which played a pivotal role in creating the Texas PUC in 1975 and overseeing that agency’s early operations. Thereafter, Mr. Holman served as Assistant Director of the Hearings Division and a senior administrative law judge during the PUC’s formative years (1977-81). Education J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 1975 M.A., Public Administration, The University of Texas at Austin, 1976 B.A., Political Science, magna cum laude, Austin College, 1970 Rank: First in Class Study Abroad: University of Southampton (England), Department of Politics, 1969 Bar Admissions Texas, 1975 Admitted To Practice U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1985 U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, 1980 Press Release Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell Attorneys Named Texas Super Lawyers 2007 in Texas Monthly Magazine 10/10/2007 Locke Liddell & Sapp Partners Recognized Among The Best Lawyers In America 2008 9/24/2007 Locke Liddell & Sapp Partners Recognized Among The Best Lawyers In America 2007 10/6/2006 Locke Liddell & Sapp Attorneys Named Texas Super Lawyers 2006 In Texas Monthly Magazine 9/29/2006 Locke Liddell & Sapp Partners Recognized Among The Best Lawyers In America 2006 6/29/2006 Locke Liddell & Sapp's Lawyers Included in the Best Lawyers in America 2/4/2003 Professional History Partner in the law firm of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, 1995-2007 Partner in the Brown Maroney law firm, 1981-1995 Assistant Director of the Hearings Division & Senior Administrative Law Judge, Public Utility Commission of Texas, 1977-81 Legal Counsel to the Texas Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, 1975-77 Professional Affiliations Listed in Best Lawyers in America, Public Utility Law, (1991-2006), Energy Law (2006-07) & Communications Law (2006-07) Listed by Texas Monthly and Law & Politics magazines as one of Texas’ public utility Super Lawyers, 2003?07 Highest Professional Rating (AV), Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation Member, Public Utility, Environmental, and Administrative Law Sections, State Bar of Texas Member, Section on Environment, Energy & Resources, American Bar Association Community Leadership Caritas Austin (Community Advisory Board) West Austin Youth Association (Basketball Coach). |
