Steve Stojic
Senior Counsel
Energy Regulation
“I get great satisfaction from helping clients achieve their regulatory and business goals with respect to complex, high value issues. A favorable result may involve highly intense litigation or creative settlement, but the objective is always to achieve the best possible outcome for the client.”
Overview
Steve Stojic has more than 40 years of experience representing leading interstate natural gas pipeline companies in federal administrative law proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Courts of Appeals. He has more than 20 years of responsibility as lead counsel advising senior management on complex legal and regulatory issues and as leader of litigation teams in multi-party cases involving numerous difficult and sophisticated issues.
Represented a midcontinent interstate natural gas pipeline in an NGA Section 5 investigation and subsequent NGA Section 4 general rate case that was litigated before FERC and appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Represented a Florida interstate natural gas pipeline in developing tariff gas quality specifications for renewable natural gas in a contested settlement at FERC
Represented interstate pipelines in numerous complex Natural Gas Act (NGA) Section 4 general rate cases set for hearing before FERC
Represented an interstate pipeline in its defense of an NGA Section 5 action by the Commission, resulting in termination of the proceeding with no change in rates
Represented an interstate pipeline in LNG quality standards hearing and U.S. Court of Appeals cases, obtaining approval of the company’s proposed tariff standards
Represented interstate pipeline in complex hearing involving sale of capacity, resulting in Commission rejection of $20 million complaint alleging violations of tariff and Commission regulations
Represented interstate pipeline in successful defense of tariff and contract provisions authorizing recovery of substantial reservation charges
Represented interstate pipeline in U.S. Court of Appeals cases and Commission proceedings involving contract dispute, leading to recovery of over $1 million in tax refunds
Credentials
Education
- University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1980
- University of Michigan, B.A., with high distinction, 1977
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit