Principal Attorney

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Position Specific Description

In 2025, NextEra Energy was named No. 1 overall among electric and gas utilities on Fortune's 2025 list of "World's Most Admired Companies." This is the 17th time in the last 19 years that the company has received this honor.

Our company’s values are:

- We are committed to excellence

- We do the right thing

- We treat people with respect

NextEra Energy is seeking an exceptional attorney to join NextEra’s state regulatory legal group, within the company’s 100 lawyer law department at the company’s headquarters in Juno Beach, located in beautiful and tropical northern Palm Beach County, Florida.

NextEra’s state regulatory legal group has a fast-paced, challenging and cutting-edge practice. In this position, the attorney would advise and represent NextEra Energy’s utilities, as well as its various generation and transmission companies in state regulatory proceedings in the United States and Canada.

We are looking for versatile, problem-solving, top-of-the-industry state electric regulatory attorney to focus on supporting NextEra’s regulated and competitive generation and transmission businesses with more than three years’ experience preferred, whose credentials should include:

- Training and experience from a top national utility-side state regulatory administrative litigation law firm, public utility commission, and/or in-house practice;

- A track record of successful hands-on representation of state public utility commission administrative litigation proceedings;

- An outstanding academic background; and

- A body of legal work demonstrating ethical, innovative, and disciplined approaches to winning regulatory legal proceedings and successfully addressing important and complex regulatory legal problems.

Typical duties and tasks would include, but not be limited, to:

- Provide state public utility commission advice regarding approvals, compliance, acquisitions and permitting for regulated utilities and competitive transmission, renewable and conventional generation projects.

- Representation, which will include the drafting of motions, discovery, and briefs, defending and cross-examining witnesses, in state public utility commission proceedings.

- Support the submitting competitive transmission bids in ISO/RTOs.

- Review and analyze proposed state legislation that impacts utilities or transmission and generation projects.

Candidates should be licensed to practice law in Florida or eligible to qualify for a Florida Authorized House Counsel certificate under Florida Supreme Court rules.

This is a fully onsite opportunity based out of our Juno Beach, FL HQ.

Job Overview

Employees in this job participate in complex legal matters and projects and deliver timely and quality legal services to clients with moderate supervision.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

- Provides written and oral legal advice to clients

- Anticipates and guards against legal risks involving the organization

- Works to ensure budget compliance and avoids the need for outside counsel

- Ensures disclosure of potentially material legal issues to senior leadership

- Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

- Member in Good Standing of State Bar

- High School Grad / GED

- Juris Doctorate

- Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications

- None

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.

Employee Group: Exempt Employee Type: Full Time Job Category: Legal/Regulatory/External Affairs Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

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