Norman J. Kennard

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Norman J. Kennard is a Partner at Thomas, Long, Niesen & Kennard.

Norm has been practicing regulatory law in Pennsylvania since 1979, with particular emphasis in public utility, telecommunications, energy, gaming, professional licensure, and other areas of governmental oversight and regulation.  He has broad experience before Pennsylvania’s administrative agencies and in Common Pleas Courts, as well as before the Pennsylvania appellate courts.  He advises and represents all types of utility service providers in rate, service, and market-entry related issues.

Norm is counsel to the Pennsylvania Telephone Association and numerous individual local exchange telecommunications companies.  He has been involved in every major rulemaking and generic docket before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission affecting the communications industry in the past twenty years. 

Norm also has represented energy distribution companies, energy producers, and end-users in a wide variety of issues, including rate setting, competition complaints, and retail transportation.  He was lead counsel in the first natural gas transportation proceeding in Pennsylvania in 1986 and has handled some of the largest by-pass cases in the Commonwealth.  He also has been lead counsel and an advisor in some of the largest utility mergers in Pennsylvania.

Norm has written extensively in the area of energy, telecommunications, and public utility law, co-authoring the Rate Case Handbook and numerous industry articles.  He is a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education programs of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and has been the telecommunications education leader at the PBI for several years.

Norm is B-V rated by Martindale-Hubbell.  He holds membership in the Dauphin County and Pennsylvania (including Public Utility Section) Bar Associations. 

AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Energy, Telecommunications & Public Utility
• Administrative, Regulatory & Government
• Gaming Law
• Professional Licensing

EDUCATION

• Franklin Pierce Law Center
  (J.D., 1979)
• Hartwick College
  (B.A., 1974)

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE

• Pennsylvania, 1979
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania