Energy Attorney Christopher Skey Rejoins Quarles & Brady in Chicago
Christopher Skey has rejoined Quarles & Brady LLP’s Energy, Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Group as a partner in its Chicago office.
The firm said that Skey, who worked at Quarles & Brady from 2012 to 2016, has more than 20 years of experience in energy regulatory matters, as well as project development, compliance, and a range of commercial and administrative litigation, transactional, and government relations matters. Skey’s energy practice involves the representation of public utilities and energy cooperatives; energy suppliers (electric and natural gas); renewable energy developers and asset owners; municipalities; and large commercial, industrial, and governmental energy users, among others. He was recently recognized by Chambers USA as a leading practitioner in energy regulatory law in Illinois.
Skey served as a judicial law clerk to U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday, Middle District of Florida (Tampa Division), from 2000 to 2003.
Skey is affiliated with Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, where he currently chairs the Advisory Board. His civic involvement includes service on the Board of Directors for Books & Breakfast in Evanston, IL. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law and his B.A. from Northwestern University.
