Wilkinson Barker Knauer is pleased to announce that Caitlin Shields has become a partner at the firm. Her practice focuses on energy regulation and state telecommunications issues, and she routinely advises on and litigates resource planning issues, ratemaking and rate design, CPCNs, energy efficiency, renewable energy and distributed generation, municipalization and regulated monopoly issues, power procurement, and utility restructuring and competitive market development. Caitlin also currently serves on the Energy Bar Association’s Energy Law Journal Mentor Circle where she provides advice and guidance on energy law and career paths to the student staff members of the Energy Law Journal.

Caitlin also advises clients in environmental, health, and safety matters, provides regulatory and compliance counseling, and conducts environmental due diligence reviews on transactional matters. Managing Partner Bryan Tramont said, “We have been honored to have Caitlin working and growing with us, she’s definitely come into her own, and we are proud to call her partner.”