Clinton A. Vince

Partner

Clint Vince is the Chair of SNR Denton’s Energy, Transport and Infrastructure sector.

Clint has directed the expansion of SNR Denton’s Energy team into a premier global practice that includes professionals in more than 60 locations worldwide, offering a full range of services to energy industry clients. He is widely recognized for his cutting-edge theories and solutions within the energy industry and has a top-tier litigation track record.

Clint remains at the forefront of energy developments and continuously handles some of the highest profile cases in the industry. His experience involves major project development, legislative and regulatory advocacy on behalf of public and private clients, and litigation and appellate cases including U.S. Supreme Court advocacy. Clint has argued before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as state appellate courts, in some instances multiple times.

With more than 30 years of experience in the industry, Clint has been described by clients as "fair, equitable and extremely intelligent” and as “a ‘master’ at assessing a situation, planning a strategy, presenting that plan … and following through to closure.” As a leading industry litigator, he is “tenacious in trial advocacy and always mindful and gracious in negotiation.”

Recently, Clint and his team of ETI professionals were awarded Energy Daily’s Leadership Award for “Most Dynamic Energy Practice” in the US. Clint is also recognized by Best Lawyers in America and Washington, DC, Super Lawyers and has received recognition from Chambers.

Clint is the immediate past editor-in-chief of the Energy Law Journal and just completed a two-year term as co-chair of the prestigious Keystone Center, a policy think-tank known for its work in the energy and environmental fields.

Prior to joining SNR Denton, Clint was the managing partner of the Washington, DC, office of Sullivan and Worcester LLP, where he was also director of the firm’s Energy practice.

He served as co-chair of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, where he was the founder and chair of the firm’s Energy and Environmental practice.

Representative Experience

• As the city of New Orleans’ lead federal trial counsel for nearly three decades, Clint is credited with helping to save more than $2 billion for the ratepayers of the city and assisting with the rebuilding of the city’s electric and natural gas systems that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
• He has handled more than 500 regulatory, state, federal, trial and appellate proceedings involving the City of New Orleans, including US Supreme Court advocacy.
• Clint has served as lead trial counsel to the Southeastern Federal Power Customer group (SEFPC) in the highly publicized “Tri-State Water Wars” and has handled many other cases for them as well.
• He serves as counsel to a coalition of foreign businesses engaged in energy industries worldwide.
• ORMET, one of the nation's largest aluminum producers, was featured in Forbes for implementing an innovative market-based energy cost reduction strategy, devised under Clint’s guidance.
• As outside general counsel to Rayburn Country Electric Cooperative, Clint has won every major energy case involving Rayburn in the past 30 years.
• Clint represents some of the largest corporations in Japan, assisting them in navigating the US energy industry with particular emphasis on energy and environmental policy and all forms of project development, including renewables.

Honors and Awards

• Awarded 2012 Champion by the Women's Council on Energy and the Environment (WCEE)
• Voted Washington, DC, Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers magazine, 2007–2012
• Recognized in The Lawyer's "Transatlantic Elite" issue, June 2011
• Recipient of The Keystone Center's Founder Leadership Award, 2011
• Ranked in Chambers USA, Nationwide, Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation), 2011
• Recognized by Best Lawyers for Energy Law, 2007–2011
• The Best Lawyers in America, 2007–2011
• Lawdragon in America, 2010 and 2011
• Leadership Award for "Most Dynamic Energy Practice," Energy Daily, February 2010
• SNR Denton Firmwide Diversity Committee's Fifth Annual Duane C. Quaini Change Agent Award, 2009
• Acknowledgement, Chambers USA, 2007
• Voted "Legal Elite," Washington SmartCEO Magazine, 2006

Organizations

• Member, Board of Directors, World Resource Institute, 2011
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, American Public Power Association
• Member, Federal Energy Bar Association
• Chair, Foundation of the Energy Law Journal, 1994–1998 
• Member, Bar Association of the District of Columbia
• Keystone Policy Center
  • Co-chair, Main Board, 2008–2010
  • Co-chair, Energy Board, 2003–2008 
• Editor-in-chief, Energy Law Journal, 2004–2005

Publications

• “Shaping the US Energy Industry,” Financier Worldwide, January 2011
• “Global Warming and Related Issues” Lexis Nexis treatise: Energy Law and Transactions, 2011
• “New Orleans Energy Systems Recovery a Huge Success,” Natural Gas & Electricity, February 2008
• “Update on Regional Transmission Organizations-Order No. 2000,” Energy Law and Transactions (Matthew Bender and Co., Inc. Rel. 19-5/00)
• “Independent System Operators,” Energy Law and Transactions (Matthew Bender and Co., Inc. Rel. 17-6/99) 
• “The Future of Public Power and Electric Cooperatives,” Vol. 10, Number 9, The Electricity Journal (11/97)

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