Sarah Tracy Joins Pierce Atwood's Energy Group

Pierce Atwood LLP is pleased to announce that attorney Sarah (Bradley) Tracy has joined the firm as counsel in its Energy Practice Group. Sarah will reside in the firm’s Portland office.

Sarah’s practice focuses primarily on electric and natural gas proceedings before state and federal entities, including state public utility commissions and state and federal courts. Sarah counsels and represents her clients on a range of matters that include rate recovery and design, transmission development, long-term contracts for the purchase of energy, capacity and renewable energy credits, Class I new renewable resource certification, and issues relating to competitive electricity providers. Sarah has also represented water utilities before the Maine Public Utilities Commission.

Before joining Pierce Atwood, Sarah was a staff attorney with the Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) in the Legal and the Electricity and Gas Division. Sarah’s experience in both the private and public sector allows her to bring a unique approach to resolving legal and regulatory issues facing her clients.

Before she joined the MPUC, Sarah was a shareholder and associate at Bernstein Shur in Portland, Maine. Prior to returning to Maine, Sarah was a litigation associate at Holland & Knight LLP in Boston, Massachusetts. Sarah also clerked for the Honorable Donald G. Alexander of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court after graduating from law school.

Sarah earned her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Connecticut Law School and her B.A., cum laude, from Amherst College. She is admitted to practice in Maine and Connecticut and before the U.S. District Courts in Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut, as well as the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Outside of her legal career, Sarah is a Freeport Town Councilor and serves as an elementary school soccer and lacrosse coach.

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