Thomas L. Rudebusch

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Mr. Rudebusch joined Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke, P.C., in June 1987. Mr. Rudebusch has focused his practice on energy, public utility, and antitrust activities, in particular, electric bulk power supply, utility mergers, wholesale ratemaking, and access to transmission facilities. Mr. Rudebusch has made numerous appearances in litigation before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, as well as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He has briefed and argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Rudebusch has represented or advised municipally- and cooperatively-owned utilities, and state agencies. He is active in representing clients in traditional and organized markets.

Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Rudebusch was employed as an attorney-advisor with the Office of Administrative Law Judges, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. As a law clerk to ALJ's Daniel M. Head and Thomas L. Howe, Mr. Rudebusch participated in decisions involving electrical utility ratemaking, natural gas pipeline marketing and ratemaking, and oil pipeline ratemaking methodologies, among other issues.

During law school, Mr. Rudebusch was active as a law clerk with the firm of Cullen, Weston and Pines in Madison, Wisconsin. He assisted the Firm in representing the state-chartered Citizens Utility Board in telephone and electric cases; and he monitored meetings of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission for that client. Through the University of Wisconsin Business School, he took the "Theory of Public Utilities" course taught by the respected Dr. Rodney Stevenson, Director of the Public Utility Institute.

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