Austin Energy Regulatory Partner Moves to Balch & Bingham

Casey Bell, an energy regulatory attorney and former administrative law judge, has joined Balch & Bingham in Austin. He will focus his practice on representing electric utilities, independent power producers, project development matters and transactional issues involving the ERCOT and MISO markets, the firm said in a news release.

Bell was at Troutman Pepper Locke for a little more than a year after spending about six years at Duggins Wren Mann & Romero in Austin. Bell served as an administrative law judge with the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings for four and a half years, presiding over contested cases referred by the Public Utility Commission of Texas. Earlier in his career, Bell was at Richards Rodriguez & Skeith and Goforth Lewis where he practiced for a dozen years.