In a 2016 article for the Harvard Business Review, former General Electric general counsel Ben W. Heineman, Jr. wrote, “The CFO-GC alliance has always been important because the finance function and the legal function are truly the nervous system of the corporation—sending critical signals to...
From AirBnB to Uber, disruptive companies often have to delicately navigate municipal rules and regulations, including zoning laws, in order to operate in densely populated urban centers. Urban farming startups are no exception. Many are grappling with similar issues in their efforts to grow and...
GreeneHurlocker is pleased to announce that attorneys Eric Wallace and Laura Musick have been promoted from counsel to partner, effective as of January 1, 2022. Eric’s practice includes energy law, energy regulation and commercial transactions, with a focus on representing clients in the energy and renewable...
I recently blogged about a case in which the Virginia Supreme Court ruled in my client’s favor. Numerous people reached out to me, many of them asking what it was like to do a virtual argument before the Court. Well, let me tell you about...
The Supreme Court of Virginia recently affirmed a Final Order issued by the State Corporation Commission that began as a dispute over what qualifies as renewable energy but ended in a split opinion debating the effects of statutory changes on existing contracts. At the end...
Transactional lawyers don’t often get to see the fruits of their labors. In the renewable energy world, at least there is a physical project to show for the work at the end, and we like a to see a good solar facility built as much...
We are seeing a trend with Virginia localities proposing or enacting solar moratoriums to allow for the updating or creation of solar-specific solar ordinances, including the newly enacted revenue share ordinance.[1] These are important developments that those in the solar power industry should be aware...
This is the last in our series of blog posts and videos (the whole series is here) about how an idea is just that: an idea, and how there are some basic, critical things a high-potential start-up technology company founder must do in order to...
Our client Secure Futures, which has been helping expand solar installations including energy storage and energy management and monitoring software for over a decade, has just received a $25 million commitment to finance solar installations in Virginia and the southeast US. Read the whole story...
We had a great day on June 8 with Kim Brundage and her team capturing new images of all our lawyers and our staff leader. Kim Brundage Photography was selected before the COVID pandemic interrupted our ability to be together, but her help was worth...