Regina L. Matz

rmatz@thomaslonglaw.com

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Regina L. Matz is a Partner at Thomas, Long, Niesen & Kennard.

Gina has been practicing law for over 20 years in the public and private sectors in cases affecting primarily the insurance and utility industries.  As counsel for the Pennsylvania Insurance Department and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, and as a founding lawyer in the Pennsylvania Office of Small Business Advocate, Gina has concentrated her practice in administrative law and regulated industry matters before regulatory agencies and state and federal courts.  She also counsels clients on a variety of trusts and estate matters.

Since the passage of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 and complimentary state legislation, Gina has worked extensively on behalf of independent telecommunications carriers in Pennsylvania.  She has served as counsel to a group of 20 independent telecommunications carriers in the preparation, filing, litigation and implementation of these carriers’ alternative regulation and network modernization plans under Chapter 30 of the Public Utility Code, and was counsel to a similar group of 26 carriers over a two-year period as part of an industry effort to develop, draft and support enactment of replacement legislation for Chapter 30.  She also served a judicial clerkship with the Pennsylvania Superior Court.

Gina is B-V rated by Martindale-Hubble.  She is a member of the Dauphin County Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association, where she serves as a member of the Public Utility Law Section.  She is also a member of the American Bar Association (including Public Utility, Communication, and Transportation Law Section).

AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Energy, Telecommunications & Public Utility
• Trusts & Estates

EDUCATION

• Dickinson School of Law
  (J.D., 1984; Associate Editor and Business Manager, The Dickinson Journal of International Law; Member, Jessup International Law Moot Court, 1984 Regional Best Memorial Award)
• Dickinson College
  (B.A., International Studies, magna cum laude, 1981)

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE

• Pennsylvania, 1984
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania