A founding name partner of the New York law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, Mr. MacRae used his training as a civil engineer to become an expert on electric and gas utility law.
He founded and directed Pennsylvania Citizen Action, where he helped lead successful campaigns to reform the state's public utility law, create a toxics right to know law and expand access to generic drugs for senior citizens.
On a state level, public-utility laws need to be revamped so that utility companies are rewarded for promoting energy efficiency rather than energy consumption.
While I was sitting there, a farmer came to complain about a national utilities law that he believed to be unfair.
When Mr. Davis became sole chairman of LeBoeuf & Lamb in 2004, he sought to broaden the firm's business beyond its solid if stodgy specialties in insurance and utilities law.
The new apps are focused on the healthcare and industrial products industries, following prior announcements that saw the release of apps specific to banking and finance, travel and transportation, energy and utilities, law enforcement, retail, insurance, and more.
In the absence of patent, trademark, design and utility model laws, and their effective enforcement, advanced country firms will be rarely willing to license technology to developing countries.
But, utilities say, laws governing underground disposal were not written with carbon dioxide in mind, and sequestration is in a legal quagmire.
The investigation, however, is at an early stage; establishing that the utilities broke laws in their handling of an unprecedented disaster could be difficult.
Because telephone service has long been considered a utility, the law does not require the city to get competitive bids for those contracts, he said.
