Shawane Lee represents public utilities and other companies in matters before governmental and regulatory agencies, including Public Utility Commissions. With over 13 years of experience as in-house counsel and 6 years of experience as a litigator, Shawane leverages her extensive industry knowledge to provide clients creative, strategic, and comprehensive regulatory law, and litigation representation.
Prior to joining Snell & Wilmer, Shawane served as in-house counsel for Southern California Gas Company, the nation’s largest natural gas distribution utility and PECO Energy Company, Pennsylvania ’s largest electric and natural gas utility. Shawane advised company leadership and stakeholders through a wide range of subject matters, including climate change adaptation, emergency disaster relief, tribal affairs, COVID-19 pandemic regulatory requirements, customer complaint cases, and policy implications associated with electric and gas utilities. Shawane has participated as first chair counsel in numerous California Public Utility Commission and Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission proceedings including rate cases, formal complaints, rulemakings, and policy dockets.
An experienced regulatory lawyer, Shawane handles the following on behalf of utilities and major corporations:
- Rate Cases
- Customer Complaint cases
- Public Utility Commission proceedings
- Application filings
- Tariff filings
- Complex Customer Billing and Tariff Analysis
- Regulatory Compliance
- Smart Meter Litigation
- Low-income Energy Assistance programs
- Compliance Audits
- Regulatory Risk
Shawane is also highly experienced in litigating premise liability, product liability, and toxic tort matters and has first and second chaired State Court jury trials to verdict.
Shawane is admitted to practice in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
