Paul R. McCary

Paul McCary, of counsel, has practiced in the energy and public utility areas since 1981.  Beginning with early PURPA projects, he negotiated power sales agreements involving cogeneration and small power production projects.

Before the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, he has handled several traditional gas and water utility rate cases and has represented merchant generators in numerous proceedings involving utility divestiture, standard service procurement and requests for proposal proceedings. He has also represented large gas and electricity consumers with respect to commodities acquisition and gas transportation agreements. On behalf of large electric users he has supported the development of behind-the-meter distributed generation facilities, sub-metering and participation in demand response programs. He was an active participant in the electric industry restructuring effort in Connecticut, representing a power marketer seeking to implement customer choice at the retail level and independent power producers seeking to design, permit, finance and construct merchant power plants.

Paul is the author of several articles concerning cogeneration, including “Cogeneration in Connecticut” which appeared in the Connecticut Bar Journal. He co-authored a chapter of a book published by the American Bar Association on evaluating competitive electricity offers. He served on the Connecticut General Assembly’s Electric Industry Restructuring Task Force. He co-authored an article on microgrids which was published in the March 2013 edition of Public Utilities Fortnightly.

Paul graduated from Western New England College School of Law in 1979 and was Editor-in-Chief of the School’s Law Review. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Leo Parskey, Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. He previously served as an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut Law School teaching Energy Regulation and Policy.

• Energy
• Energy, Environmental & Utilities
• Renewable Energy
• Utilities

• Connecticut Bar Association, Public Utility Law Section, Executive Committee
• American Bar Association, Section of Public Utility, Communications, and Transportation Law
• Energy Bar Association
• Board of Directors, Northeast Energy and Commerce Association
• Former President of the Connecticut Power and Energy Society (formerly known as the Connecticut Cogeneration Society)
• National Association of Water Companies

• James W. Cooper Life Fellow of Connecticut Bar Foundation
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® as Hartford Lawyer of the Year in the area of Energy Law for 2012 and 2015 (Copyright 2015 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC)
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Energy Law (2005 - 2006) and Utilities Law (2016) (Copyright 2015 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC)
• Holds an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Rating from Martindale-Hubbell
• Recipient, "Distinguished Leadership" Award, Leadership Greater Hartford, 2003
• Listed in Connecticut Super Lawyers® (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.)

• Law Clerk to The Honorable Leo Parskey, Connecticut Supreme Court of Conn., 1980-1981

• "Cogeneration in Connecticut," Vol. 59 Connecticut Bar Journal No. 5, page 365 (1985)
• "Reducing Interconnection Costs: Avoiding The CIAC Trap, " Vol. 4 The Generation Journal No. 2, page 17 (1989)
• "Capturing the Power of Electric Restructuring," American Bar Association (chapter on Evaluating Competitive Offers - co-author) (2009)
• "Peaceful Co-Existence - Independent Microgrids," Public Utilities Fortnightly (co-author) (March 2013)

• August 19, 2021 - 40 Murtha Cullina Attorneys Receive “Best Lawyers in America” Recognition
• August 20, 2020 - 48 Murtha Cullina Attorneys Receive “Best Lawyers in America” Recognition
• August 15, 2019 - 33 Murtha Cullina Attorneys Receive “Best Lawyers in America” Recognition; Four Named “Lawyer of the Year”
• August 15, 2018 - 32 Murtha Cullina Attorneys Receive “Best Lawyers in America” Recognition; Two Named Lawyer of the Year
• November 30, 2017 - Paul R. McCary To Receive "Excellence in Energy" Award from Connecticut Power and Energy Society
• August 15, 2017 - 35 Murtha Cullina Attorneys Receive “Best Lawyers in America” Recognition; Three Named “Lawyer of the Year”
• May 11, 2017 - Dena M. Castricone and Paul R. McCary Named James W. Cooper Fellows of the Connecticut Bar Foundation
• August 16, 2016 - Attorneys Receive "Best Lawyers" Recognition

• November 2014 - The Future of Utilities and Renewables - How Will Your Bottom Line Be Affected?

• May 2, 2016 - Paul McCary wrote on OpEd entitled "Connecticut should adopt time-of-use electric rates" for the CT Mirror
• March 28, 2016 - Paul McCary interviewed for Hartford Business Journal Article on Electric Submetering
• July 13, 2015 - Article by Paul R. McCary Published in CT Law Tribune's Special Construction and Energy Law Section
• November 23, 2014 - Paul R. McCary writes article on Connecticut electricity prices for New London Day
• October 20, 2014 - Paul R. McCary quoted in Hartford Business Journal and Connecticut Law Tribune
• November 4, 2013 - "Submetering fuels $3.1M energy efficiency fight"
• April 18, 2013 - 'Peaceful Coexistence'
• Connecticut Business Day Unites Voices Across the State

• November 1, 2016 - Paul R. McCary Moderating Panel at Northeast Energy and Commerce Association's Power Markets Conference
• Middlesex Chamber Breakfast: How to Recover When Disaster Strikes

• Connecticut

• Western New England School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1979)
• University of Connecticut (B.A., 1974)