James Guy, a member of Sutherland’s Energy and Environmental Practice Group, focuses primarily on public utility regulatory law, representing electric utilities, power marketers, retail electric providers, independent power producers, and other energy companies, as well as large industrial energy users. He has extensive experience in a variety of natural gas and electric rate restructuring, certification, rulemaking, and complaint proceedings before state regulatory agencies, including the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the State Office of Administrative Hearings, the Railroad Commission of Texas, the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, and the Illinois Commerce Commission.

Prior to law school, James worked as a quality control manager and production supervisor for a process manufacturing company in Houston. In addition, he taught manufacturing employees classes designed to develop leadership, management and teamwork skills and was part of a national team created to develop a company culture that encourages and supports learning and improvement.