Overview
(July 30, 2025, Washington, DC) – Steptoe partner Karen Bruni, has been named a 2025 Law360 Rising Star in Energy. The list recognizes attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments transcend their age.
Karen earned her spot on the list by securing approvals from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to help complete multimillion-dollar energy transactions such as the sale of one company's shares in wind projects for nearly a total of $1 billion.
At Steptoe, Karen focuses her energy practice on the regulation of electric and natural gas utilities by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). She has successfully worked on complex regulatory, enforcement, and compliance matters related to transmission and interconnection issues, tariff compliance, utility mergers and asset acquisitions, cost-of-service ratemaking, rate design, and cost allocation. Additionally, she has counseled electric utilities before federal courts in litigations related to enforcement and antitrust matters.
Read Karen's complete profile at Law360.
About Steptoe
In more than 110 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and other professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington. For more information, visit www.steptoe.com.
