Randy Young is a partner in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller. He joined the firm in 1992 and practices in the areas of energy, telecommunications and utility regulation, and also in environmental litigation. Randy has more than 10 years of experience in electric utility regulation and environmental law.

He represents industrial manufacturing, refining and related companies, before the Louisiana Public Service Commission ("LPSC") and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC"). He also represents independent generation companies and power marketers in matters before the LPSC.

Randy has extensive experience in complex toxic tort litigation, class action proceedings and settlements, insurance claims litigation, and he represents clients in connection with environmental remediation and Superfund/CERCLA issues and litigation. Mr. Young is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White, Inc.) in Energy Law (2007-2009). 

Representative Experience

• Representation of an association of industrial manufacturing, refining and/or related business operations located in Louisiana who collectively purchase more than 9 Billion kWh/year of electricity, in virtually all electric energy rulemaking and policy matters before the LPSC during the past ten years, including proceedings involving avoided cost rules, fuel clause recovery rules, transmission constraint reviews, retail competition proceedings, and nuclear generation rulemaking.
• Representation of  an association of industrial manufacturing, refining, and/or related business operation, in virtually all proceedings before the LPSC pertaining to Louisiana and Gulf States energy company, during the past ten years, including proceedings involving rate cases, annual earnings reviews, performance based ratemaking, rate increase requests, fuel cost reviews, stand by rate proposals, facilities charge proposals, stranded cost recovery mechanisms, exit fees, hydroplant imprudence investigations, Least Cost Integrated Resource Planning, and hurricane storm cost recovery.
• Representation of various energy companies, in proceedings before the LPSC involving investigation of enrgy companies purchase power contracts and Long Term Resource Plan.
• Representation in an energy companies system agreement proceedings at the FERC related to retail competition, interruptible load cost allocations, production cost equalization, and purchase power contracts.
• Representation in various rulemaking proceedings at the FERC, involving RTO and Transco issues.
• Representation of telecommunications companies in a complaint case before the Tennessee Regulatory Authority related to unfair and discriminatory business practices.
• Representation of a large transportation provider in two major chemical transportation accident cases and related class action litigation involving thousands of claims of area residents. Participated in numerous other cases involving defense of class action and/or mass tort environmental claims against industrial/commercial companies including plant explosions, chemical spills and releases, and long term exposures from environmental contamination.
• Representation of various industrial clients in CERCLA cost recovery action and environmental remediation issues.
• Representation of national retairlers, in insurance claims litigation against insurers on comprehensive general liability policies for recovery of indemnity and defense costs in environmental and toxic tort litigation.
• Representation of transportation provider in transportation accident litigation.

Education

Randy earned his J.D. from the LSU Law Center in 1992 where he was a member of the Order of the Coif, Academic Hall of Fame, Phi Kappa Phi, and recipient of the Jules F. Landry Scholarship Award for 1991 1992. He also attended the summer law program at Universite' d'Aix Marseille III in Aix en Provence, France. Randy earned his B.S. from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1983 where he received Outstanding Graduate honors.

Admissions

• Admitted to bar, 1992, Louisiana

Memberships

• Baton Rouge (Continuing Legal Education Committee),Louisiana State (Public Utilities Section) and American Bar Associations.

Community Service

• Chairman of Membership Sub Committee, Louisiana Chemical Industry Alliance;.
• Chairman, Law School Liaison Committee, Baton Rouge Bar Association.
• Chairman, Treasurer, Friends of Environmental Education.
• Chairman, Firm Fundraising Drive, Capital Area United Way.
• Chairman, Firm Membership Drive, Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce.
• Judge, LSU Law Center Flory Trial and Moot Court Competitions.
• President and Treasurer, Our Lady of Mercy Church Men's Club.
• Volunteer, Junior Achievement Teaching Program, Glen Oaks Middle School.
• Volunteer, Baton Rouge Mid City Fix Up Projects.
• Volunteer, Meals on Wheels.
• Volunteer, Science Saturday Workshops for Educators.
• Volunteer, Mock Trial Program for High School Students.
• Volunteer, Our Lady of Mercy Church Fairs.
• Volunteer, Boy Scout Jamborees.
• Supporter, United Way, Baton Rouge Cancer Services, Hospice Foundation, Community Fund for the Arts, Lupus Foundation, Baton Rouge Big Buddy Program, Our Lady of Mercy Church.

Articles, Publications and Presentations

Environmental Racism?
The Environmental Justice Movement

Authorships

• Intent in Environmental Racism is Hard to Prove, But Plaintiffs May Not Have To, 4 Corporate Legal Times 26.