Administrative Law

The firm provides counsel to a broad range of clients- from individuals and corporations to municipalities.

The firm provides counsel to a broad range of clients - from individuals and corporations to municipalities.

Utilizing its extensive experience in administrative law, Carella, Bryne, Bain, Gilfillan, Cecchi, Stewart & Olstein strives to provide clients with the highest level of professional service. In addition to successfully handling hearings before the Office of Administrative Law, the firm has represented clients before numerous New Jersey State agencies including the Board of Public Utilities and the Department of Environmental Protection.

PUBLIC UTILITIES

The firm's attorneys have invaluable experience along a broad spectrum of public utility representation and have successfully worked on behalf of electrical, gas, and water companies, cable television companies, telecommunication companies, and independent power producers. Areas of representation and counsel include:

• Rate Applications
  

• Alternative Energy and Cogeneration
  

• Solid Waste and Resource Recovery Projects
  

• Utility-Related Public Issue Negotiations.
  

The firm brings a competency in numerous services for independent power producers including:

• Assistance with Project Development
  

• Preparation of Power Purchase Agreements
  

• Appearances before the Board of Public Utilities
  

• Obtaining of all Federal, State, and Local Final Permits.
  

The attorneys involved with administrative law utilize their broad knowledge of the utility industry and its regulations to skillfully develop a practical package to assist communities in the enactment of appropriate tax abatement programs. The same thoroughness and creativity that the firm's attorneys apply to the preparation of merger proposals for utilities is also evident in the firm's strategy for privatization projects.

In response to the growing trend among communities to pursue privatization as a means of replacing revenue lost to state and federal funding cuts, the firm's attorneys work closely with the investment community to obtain financing, consistently drawing upon their experience with local development incentives. The firm brings clients a value-added perspective developed while serving as counsel in the State's first privatization of a municipal waste water / water system under the New Jersey Wastewater and Water Privatization Acts.

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Along with this extensive public utility experience, it should be noted that the firm numbers  among its partners a past President of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.  Additionally, over the years, the firm has played an important role in shaping public utility legislation in the state. It took the lead in the drafting and passage of the landmark "McEnroe Legislation" for resource recovery facilities.