Emmitt C. House received a B.A. from Carleton College after which he was a Watson Fellow and received a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. Mr. House has extensive experience counseling clients in all areas of corporate and commercial law with an emphasis on the energy industry. He has represented utilities, pipelines, natural gas and electric power marketers, power producers, oil companies and coal companies in many commercial matters, as well as before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and various state regulatory bodies and federal and state courts. Mr. House's principal areas of practice consist of energy transactions, state and federal utility law and energy regulation and administrative law and litigation. He counsels clients on the purchase, sale, transportation and transmission of natural gas and electricity, the wholesale and retail aspects of energy enterprises, energy business ventures, preparation and prosecution of applications, filings and comments in state and federal administrative proceedings and prosecution of related appellate litigation. He has aided in the shaping of federal and state energy policies through active participation in proceedings over the past two decades where those policies were articulated and developed. He has been particularly active in assisting clients in the challenging transition from a regulatory framework to more open free market competition. He is admitted to practice in Illinois, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C., Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits.
Mr. House is a partner of the firm. ENERGY, ENERGY REGULATION, BUSINESS LAW, UTILITY LAW, ELECTRIC POWER.