Lisa Rackner

Practice Areas

Lisa's practice focuses on energy and telecommunications law with an emphasis on providing regulatory and transactional advice to natural gas and electric utilities, and telecommunications carriers. She appears regularly before the Public Utility Commission of Oregon and the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, and has represented clients before FERC and the FCC.

Career

After graduating from law school in 1987, Lisa joined the Portland law firm of Lindsay Hart Neil and Weigler LLP and was made partner in 1995. In 2000, she joined Ater Wynne LLP as partner, where she served as Head of the Telecommunications Practice Group and Chair of the Regulated Industries Department. She left Ater Wynne in 2007 to establish McDowell & Rackner, now McDowell Rackner Gibson PC.

Professional Memberships

* Member of the Oregon and Washington State Bars.

* Member of the Oregon State Bar Energy, Telecom and Utilities Section, and Labor and Employment Section.

* Selected by her peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America for Energy, Administrative/Regulatory, and Communications Law for many years.

* Selected as an Oregon “Super Lawyer” in energy and natural resources law.