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    James H. Laskey

    Of Counsel

    James H. Laskey has practiced before the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities for more than 40 years, and is currently the chair of the firm’s cross-disciplinary Solar Energy Industry Group. He has gained extensive experience negotiating agreements for solar energy installations, purchase power agreements, and agreements for the creation and sale of the various renewable energy certificates and other incentives that have been made available for solar projects in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, including SRECs, TRECs, and other RECs. Jim was ranked in New Jersey’s inaugural “Energy & Natural Resources” section of the Chambers USA 2021 Guide, one of the oldest and most prestigious legal listings in the world and has since been ranked Band 1.

    Additionally, Jim maintains a practice in other areas of administrative and government regulatory law, including within the public utility sector proceedings concerning water, wastewater, telecommunications, electric and gas issues. For over ten years, he served as counsel to the Independent Energy Producers of New Jersey, a trade association for the power generation industry in New Jersey.

    Jim was Chair of the Public Utility Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association in 1997 and 1998.  In 2024, he received the James Lacey Award from this Section in recognition of his longstanding service to the public utility bar.  He also served as Chairman of the Board for the Somerset County Business Partnership. He has been selected for inclusion on the list of The Best Lawyers in America© for more than 30 years and was selected as the Energy Law “Lawyer of the Year” for the Newark, New Jersey, region in 2013 and for the Woodbridge region in 2025. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

    In addition to regulated industries, Jim is a past Chairman of the firm’s Business Law Practice Group. His business practice is primarily transactional in nature, including mergers, acquisitions, licensing agreements for life science and technology companies, and product supply and distribution arrangements, especially for consumer products and manufacturing companies.

    Prior to joining the firm, Jim spent three years working for the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Before that, he clerked for New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Sidney M. Schreiber.

    Areas of practice

    • Antitrust & Trade Regulation
    • Business Law
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Solar Energy
    • Telecommunications
    • Public Utilities

    Education

      • Yale Law School
        • J.D.
      • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
        • B.S.
        • Phi Beta Kappa

    Professional Affiliations

      • American Bar Association
        • Antitrust Section
        • Public Utility and Transportation Section
      • New Jersey State Bar Association
        • Public Utility Law Section
      • Federal Communications Bar Association

    Bar Admissions

      • New Jersey

    Ranked Band 1 in Chambers USA Guide as an individual attorney.

    Ranked Band 2 in Chambers USA Guide for Energy and Natural Resources practice group.

    Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®, Communications Law, 2006-2023; Energy Law, 1991–2024

    • Named the Best Lawyers® 2025 Energy Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Woodbridge.
    • Named the Best Lawyers® 2013 Energy Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Newark

    Martindale Hubbell® AV Preeminent® rated

    • Successful resolution of investigation initiated by NJ Board of Public Utilities in February 2021 regarding operations of client in New Jersey.
    • Successfully overturned in the NJ Appellate Division a BPU regulation requiring water and sewer companies to “mark out” underground pipes that are on customers’ property and that are not owned or managed by the utilities.
    • Local counsel for successful acquisition and financing of solar projects being built on a Superfund site in Toms River, NJ.
    • Jim has assisted Viridity Energy Solutions, a leading developer of battery storage facilities, in obtaining zoning approval for a large battery storage project in Atlantic City for the Atlantic County Utilities Authority.
    • Jim represented Central Bergen Properties, a leading real estate developer, in the negotiation of a hosting arrangement for a 5.4-megawatt rooftop solar energy system. The solar vendor agreed to provide the developer with a new roof for multiple buildings in Garfield in return for the developer’s agreement to purchase the power to be generated by the system for a minimum of 20 years.
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