John Povilaitis

Attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PCMr. Povilaitis focuses his practice on administrative law matters with special emphasis on energy, communications, water/wastewater and transportation public utility law. His practice ranges from proactive counseling to litigation before administrative agencies, and appellate matters before state and federal courts. With nearly 20 years of service for the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PaPUC), Mr. Povilaitis has significant regulatory experience in electricity, natural gas, water, transportation and communications law. After joining the Commission in 1978, he served as assistant counsel, federal division deputy chief counsel and first deputy chief counsel before assuming the position of chief counsel in 1989. Mr. Povilaitis served as the Commission’s counsel in the litigation that established the Pike County Doctrine. Since 1990, Mr. Povilaitis has been a course planner and speaker at the Pennsylvania Bar Institutes’s biannual Public Utility Law Conference and more recently he has served as a course planner for the biannual PaPUC Bench Bar Conference.