Steven A. Adducci
Partner
Steve has advised on and handled energy regulatory, compliance, trial, and appellate proceedings associated with the FERC, Securities and Exchange Commission, federal courts, and state utility commissions. He also has represented clients in structuring, developing, and drafting documents associated with regulating energy properties, natural gas, electricity, oil and petroleum product transportation, marketing, and natural gas storage and distribution facilities.
Related Practices
Experience
Experience
Representative Matters
- Represented entities in rulemakings, notices of inquiry, compliance, certificate, and undue discrimination and preference cases on behalf of shippers/ratepayers
- Led a team in a complex pipeline discrimination litigation involving a client’s strategic pipeline – obtaining a FERC administrative law judge (ALJ) initial decision that directed a multi-million-dollar damage award, along with the reinstatement of the client’s lost shipper history, resulting from the pipeline’s unduly preferential and discriminatory actions over multiple years
- Led a team in complex Federal Power Act litigation, obtaining a FERC ALJ initial decision associated with the favorable allocation of more than $500 million in electric transmission upgrade costs
- Was instrumental, on behalf of airline, propane, and refinery-related entities, in effecting a change in the way FERC derives its oil pipeline tariff rate index, as part of its five-year oil pipeline index review. The changes are estimated to result in savings of approximately $2.2 to $2.4 billion over the five-year period 2015 to 2020, for oil, petroleum product, and NGL shippers
Insights
Insights
Credentials
Credentials
Education
- J.D. with honors University of North Dakota School of Law 1990
- North Dakota Law Review
- Phi Alpha Delta
- B.A. summa cum laude University of North Dakota 1987
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Professional Memberships and Activities
- Vice chair, American Bar Association, Oil Pipeline Committee of the Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section
- Member, District of Columbia Bar Association
- Member, Federal Bar Association
- Member, Energy Bar Association
Recognition
Recognition
- The Best Lawyers in America, Energy Law, 2020 – 2025
- Chambers Global, Energy: Oil and Gas, Regulatory and Litigation, 2022
- Chambers USA, Energy: Oil and Gas (Regulatory and Litigation), National, 2013 – 2017, 2019 – 2024
- Legal 500
- Energy – Energy Regulation: Oil and Gas, 2020 – 2022
- Energy – Energy Litigation: Oil and Gas, 2023
- Leading Lawyers, Energy – Energy Litigation: Oil and Gas, 2024
Community
Community
Volunteerism
- Regularly volunteers with various civic events and youth sports activities
- Former member, Alexandria, Virginia chapter of the American Red Cross board of directors and general counsel for the chapter’s Waterfront Festival from 1996 to 1999 and from 2002 to 2009