Professional Bio

Member Emeritus Bill DeGrandis is an attorney with more than forty-four years of experience in energy industry matters. Before retiring in January 2025, he practiced for thirty-eight years at Paul Hastings, a global law firm with more than 1,100 lawyers, where he was a partner in the Energy/Infrastructure Group and led the firm’s Energy Regulatory Team. In that capacity, he worked extensively on regulatory and transactional issues involving renewable and non-renewable generation, electric storage, transmission, and data center projects. After retirement, DeGrandis founded his own consulting firm, continuing to advise clients on energy regulatory and transactional matters. He also serves as chief regulatory advisor to Grid Reform.

DeGrandis earned a BA in political science from Penn State (1977, with highest distinction) and a JD from the UCLA School of Law (1980), where he was comments editor of the UCLA Law Review. He and his wife, Monica, established a program fund to support both an early professorship and a full professorship in the College of the Liberal Arts. He received the college’s Outstanding Service to Society Award in 2019 and was recognized in 2014 as an Outstanding Alum of Phi Sigma Kappa—Kappa Chapter.