John J. Bartus Jr.

Counsel

John J. Bartus Jr. focuses his practice on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulatory cases. He advises power and electric industry clients on a wide variety of licensing, rate and transmission matters including merchant transmission projects, hydroelectric licensing and rate transmission organization (RTO) participation.

Well credentialed to counsel Bracewell & Guiliani LLP energy markets and regulation clients, Mr. Bartus served as a trial attorney at FERC for nearly 20 years, including one year as the legal adviser to FERC Commissioner Anthony J. Sousa and two years as a supervisory trial attorney. He was the lead staff counsel for a number of significant cases, including the American Electric Power Company merger case, in which FERC trial staff first recommended an RTO as a merger condition; the Primergy merger case, in which FERC trial staff first recommended an ISO as a merger condition; the American Electric Power Service Corporation rate case, in which FERC promulgated the "comparability" doctrine that underlies Order No. 888; and the landmark Walters Hydroelectric Project competitive hydroelectric relicensing case.

In 1993, he served as a special assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia.

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Education

LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center, 1978
J.D., St. John's University, 1974
B.S.E.E., Manhattan College, 1971

Bar Admissions

District of Columbia
New York

Affiliations

Energy Bar Association
D.C. Bar Association
New York State Bar Association

Noteworthy

Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society
Eta Kappa Nu, National Electrical Engineering Honor Society
Retired USAF Reserve Judge Advocate in the grade of Colonel