DESCRIPTIVE BIO
Mr. Flynn's professional career has been devoted to electric utility and natural gas regulation and litigation since 1984. He represents investor-owned utilities, natural gas pipelines, regional transmission operators, independent system operators, and their customers in matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), state regulatory commissions, and the federal courts of appeals and in federal antitrust litigation. Mr. Flynn has extensive experience in issues of open access transmission by both gas and electric companies, including rates, tariff development, and construction and connection of new facilities and new suppliers. He has been intimately involved for many years in the development of tariff rules for regional markets for electric energy, capacity, and ancillary services, as well as resolution of "seams" issues between adjacent regional transmission operators. In addition to numerous tariff and rate proceedings, Mr. Flynn?s work has included electric utility mergers, major natural gas pipeline construction, and federal power marketing agency proceedings, as well as telecommunications and hydroelectric matters.

EDUCATION
Mr. Flynn earned his J.D. in 1985 from the George Washington University National Law Center. In 1982, he received his B.A., magna cum laude, in political science from Saint Louis University, where he was enrolled in Phi Beta Kappa.

BAR/COURT ADMISSIONS
District of Columbia
Maryland
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Energy Bar Association (Chair, Committee on Natural Gas Regulation, 1996-1997)