Combining experience in energy, environment, security and privacy with a multifaceted approach to law, advocacy and policy, Eric works to effectively communicate client needs throughout the public and private sectors.

Eric’s security practice  focuses on bridging corporate, homeland, and national security to position clients to achieve their security-related goals, including mitigating physical and cyber risks by identifying legal protections and leveraging broad-based public-private relationships; accessing, handling and protecting sensitive or classified information; and navigating complex government requirements when engaging security-related activities regulated by the government.

 His energy and environment practice leverages his experience within the legislative and executive branch with legal and technical understanding to support client needs ranging from the in-depth to the broader, big picture issues. 

 Formerly on staff with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Energy and Environment Team, Eric supported work on the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which addressed issues throughout energy, including nuclear, coal, natural gas, hydraulic fracturing, renewables and efficiency standards. He also drafted the conservation title for the Gasoline for America’s Security Act. As a staff member of the Department of Energy’s Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, Eric tracked congressional activity impacting the Department’s energy, science and national security portfolios. This included developing a matrix that relayed to Congress the Department’s legislative comments on the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Eric also coordinated with different program offices within the Department to respond to congressional inquiries and investigations, and prepared staff for briefings and hearings with members and legislative staff. Eric later worked for George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School as a homeland security law research assistant, where he helped develop the School’s Homeland Security Law course.

Relevant Experience

Energy and Environment

• Represents industry and trade associations before Congress and the executive branch on the setting and implementation of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
• Supports electric utility clients in developing legislative and legal strategies in response to Clean Air Act regulations in areas including climate, mercury emissions and regional emissions transport.
• Monitors and responds to legislative and regulatory actions impacting major oil and gas companies in areas such as renewable portfolio standards, methane emissions and hydraulic fracturing.
• Drafts rulemaking comments on Environmental Protection Agency air regulations including greenhouse gas regulations for new and existing power plants as well as NAAQS and their implementation.
• Assists with outreach to state Attorneys General and environmental officials on federal air regulations.
• Assists a transmission organization with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission filings under the Federal Power Act.
• Supports financing of a billion-dollar liquefied natural gas export facility by developing analysis and drafting detailed memoranda concerning Department of Energy and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorization processes under the Natural Gas Act.

Security and Privacy

• Advises critical infrastructure clients on development of physical and cybersecurity policies under laws such the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 and other recent pieces of legislation.
• Advises clients in reviewing information security incident response processes, including drafting of incident response plans.
• Assists investigation and response to information security breaches, including notifications under state and federal law.
• Advises clients on International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
• Counsels corporations on cybersecurity information-sharing agreements, liability protections through SAFETY Act certification and other forms of federal assistance for systems protection.
• Assisted major power grid company with the response to a significant insider threat, including engaging with the FBI, DHS, DOE, FERC, state regulatory agencies and affected third parties; supervising the digital forensics analysis; leading the internal investigation; and managing communications with the public.
• Represents a large information services company on federal legislation concerning privacy, information security and related policy issues.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, with Concentration in National and Homeland Security, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, cum laude, 2010BA and BS, Political Science, Psychology, University of Illinois, 2003