Areas of practice
Energy Transactions
Public Finance
FERC Practice

Education
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1980, cum laude

University of Vermont, B.A., 1974, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Honors and Distinctions
Phi Beta Kappa
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in the World
Who's Who in American Law

Bar Membership
District of Columbia

Professional Affiliatons
Energy Bar Association

James R. Choukas-Bradley

Mr. Choukas-Bradley is a Principal in the firm. He specializes in counseling and representing public gas systems and their joint action agencies, individually and in groups, in their dealings with energy suppliers, pipelines, and customers.

Prior to entering law school, Mr. Choukas-Bradley was a newspaper reporter and editor, a small business owner, and assistant to the city manager of a city of 15,000 people in New Hampshire. After law school, he joined Miller, Balis & O'Neil, P.C. as an associate, and was elected a Principal in 1984.

Mr. Choukas-Bradley is a native of Hartford, Connecticut, and lives with his wife in Chevy Chase, Maryland. They have two children, one in graduate school and one in college.

Mr. Choukas-Bradley has been a pioneer and leading practitioner in helping public gas systems operate in the deregulated gas industry, including formation of joint action agencies, development of financed natural gas supply acquisition programs and projects, development of publicly-owned natural gas pipeline projects to attach competitive gas supplies, and negotiation of market-leading supply and capacity management transactions.

Mr. Choukas-Bradley's energy practice is national. It includes representation of issuers of tax-exempt bonds in structured finance transactions, negotiation and drafting of energy contracts, and practice before the FERC.