Energy Law and Transactions

William A. Mogel, Esq., focuses his legal and consulting practice on energy. He has extensive experience with federal and state issues affecting the electric and natural gas industries. He regularly represents clients before FERC, state regulatory commissions and courts. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Mogel has served as an expert witness. Mr. Mogel founded and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Energy Law Journal. He is also a Director of the Foundation of the Energy Law Journal, a co-editor of Energy Law and Transactions, and the editor of Regulation of the Gas Industry, both published by LexisNexis Matthew Bender. Mr. Mogel has had published books and numerous law review articles, magazine articles and book reviews on a broad range of energy issues. His writings have been cited as authority by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals. Mr. Mogel is listed in the Energy Who's Who Directory. He also has served on the Board of Trustees of Hobart College, his alma mater. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Mogel was a captain in the U.S. Army and a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice.

Mr. Muchow is an attorney and business consultant, former energy CEO and Georgetown professor with over 35 years of experience in energy matters. His clients include natural gas, electric and other energy companies, the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC), the American Gas Association (AGA), the Natural Gas Supply Association, and others interested in energy and business solutions, including mergers, acquisitions, and green field energy projects. From 1976 to 1998 he served as General Counsel and Secretary of the American Gas Association, which represents over 100 natural gas distribution and transmission companies and supervised its international operations.

He is President and CEO of SkyBuilt Power, LLC (solar power company); and General Counsel to the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (developing new environmentally beneficial energy technologies); and to ECO, Inc. (distributed generation arm for 300 rural electric cooperatives); former antitrust counsel to the Natural Gas Council (an association of the chairs of the major natural gas associations); and a Vice Chairman of the Gas Committee of the American Bar Association. He is the former Vice President, Secretary to the American Gas Index Fund and serves on the National Energy Panel of the American Arbitration Association. He is Co-General Editor of the seven-volume treatise Energy Law and Transactions (LexisNexis Matthew Bender). Formerly, he was Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General Richard L. Thornburg, and Chief of the Special Activities Unit in the U.S. Department of Justice; and served with the National Security Council; Smathers and Herlong Attorneys; the Office of Management and Budget, and as an assistant to Hon. James A. Haley, Chairman, House Interior Committee. He attended Georgetown University (B.S. 1966), Cornell Law School, and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1971).