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Dan L. Carroll

Partner
Sacramento

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Phone: (916) 444-1000
Fax: (916) 444-2100

Practice Areas:
Energy
Climate Change & Sustainability

Additional Areas of Expertise:
Professional Responsibility

Bio

Dan Carroll is a partner in the firm, where he has practiced in the Sacramento office since 1983. As the firm's General Counsel, he advises the firm as to professional responsibility, professional liability, and risk management issues, including supervising the firm's risk management department. In addition to these responsibilities, Dan is a former chair of the firm's Natural Resources department and a current member of the Energy, Land Use, and Minerals practice group.

Dan specializes in representing clients with respect to public utility regulatory issues related to electricity, natural gas, water, and transportation. While he has extensive experience representing parties before the California Public Utilities Commission, he has also represented energy clients in civil litigation and transactional matters. Dan saw both the good and the bad during California's efforts at electrical restructuring while he was cross-examining a utility witness during emergency hearings in 2000. In fact, he was later quoted in a national industry publication for his part in those hearings. Current and prior energy clients include large industrial users of electricity, independent gas storage providers, publicly owned utilities, California's smallest investor-owned electric utility (which has no access to the intra- or interstate transmission grids), and individual businesses. Dan also successfully represented a water conservation district in opposing recovery by a water utility of costs of involvement in the state water project. He has also advised attorneys outside the firm and other non-attorney clients on issues related to attorney ethics.

Dan actively participates in community and professional activities. He has been a member of the State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct since November, 2007, and was recently appointed to a full three-year term beginning in 2009. In that capacity, he presents regularly on attorney ethics issues. He currently serves on the Board of the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society Foundation and is also its Vice President. He is a past president of the Sacramento chapter of the Federal Bar Association, serving in that office, and as a member of the steering committee in 1999, when the Sacramento chapter hosted the Federal Bar Association's National Convention. Dan has been an attorney coach for the Elk Grove High School Mock Trial team for the past six years, during which the team won the California State High School Mock Trial championship in March 2007. In addition, he has also served on the governing council of St. John's Lutheran Church.

Dan graduated from the University of California, Davis (A.B., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1974; J.D., Order of the Coif, 1982). Prior to attending law school, Dan taught high school English in Petaluma, California. After law school and before entering practice, he was a law clerk to Justice Warren Matthews of the Alaska Supreme court.

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California

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