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Washington – August 21, 2025: The 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 49 Crowell & Moring lawyers as Best Lawyers and 33 lawyers as Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch. The publication also named partner Jason Murray as Lawyer of the Year for Antitrust Law in Los Angeles.

Washington – August 15, 2024: The 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 42 Crowell & Moring lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 29 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) issued Order No. 1920 on May 13, 2024 to increase the pace of transmission grid expansion and strengthen regional transmission planning.[1] The landmark order, as well as the concurrence and dissent of the Commissioners voting on the order, is summarized below. At bottom, it represents a fundamental reshaping of the transmission planning landscape, requiring long-term transmission planning, closer coordination between generation interconnection and regional transmission planning, and revisions to the local transmission planning process to close loopholes created by Order No. 1000 in 2011.