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Nikki Gray Shoultz
Profile : Nikki Shoultz is a partner in the Utility Group, representing clients in all types of matters involving the telecommunications, water, sewer, gas, and energy industries. She represents clients before administrative regulatory agencies on such issues as certificates of territorial authority (CTAs), rate cases, service territory disputes, billing disputes, interconnection agreements, and regulations governing Indiana public utilities. She has handled numerous types of administrative litigation including financing proceedings, mergers and acquisitions, ratemaking, depreciation rates, and rulemakings. She litigates competition-related disputes under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 on issues including WinBack promotions, slamming, structural separation, unbundled network element pricing and availability, alternative regulatory plans of incumbent carriers, access charge reform, inter-carrier compensation, and Bell operating company long distance authority requests.Ms. Shoultz serves as Indiana counsel for several national telecommunications carriers and several Indiana payphone providers. She also advises clients on other telecommunications issues including regulation of Voice Over Internet Protocol ("VOIP"), Broadband Over Power Lines ("BPL"), and wireless carriers. Additionally, she has assisted developers, customers, municipalities and utilities with zoning and service territory disputes, water and sewer capacity issues, customer specific contracts, main extension agreements, annexation, and real estate transactions. She has appeared in state and federal court and lobbied before the Indiana General Assembly on a number of utility related issues. Ms. Shoultz served as counsel for the City of Indianapolis in its contested acquisition of the Indianapolis Water Company before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. Prior to going into private practice, Ms. Shoultz practiced for four years with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission as Chief Administrative Law Judge, General Counsel, and Assistant General Counsel.
Education
Butler University (B.A., 1989)
Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis (J.D., 1992)
Appearances / Publications
Author: "Competition a Dream Without Further Action" (Indianapolis Business Journal).
Appointments / Memberships
Member: Indianapolis and Indiana State (Utility Section, Officer, Telecommunications Section, Women in the Law Section) Bar Associations; Indy Reads (Board Member); Girls Inc. (Board Member); Hanover College Center for Business Preparation (Leadership Council; Leadership Series Committee); Tri Kappa; Kappa Alpha Theta; 500 Festival Volunteer.
Honors / Awards
Included in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008; Order of the B.
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