Ann L. Fisher

Ann Fisher provides strategic and legal analysis, handles litigation, and is a strong advocate for her clients. Ms. Fisher provides significant litigation skills and non-litigation solutions and analyses to small and mid‐size businesses, individuals, public and privately owned utilities, and governmental agencies to address commercial issues. 

Areas of focus include collections, contract analysis and enforcement, business transactions including developing agreements and contracts, real estate issues and commercial leases, resource development, and strategies to limit risk while maximizing benefits. 

Over her thirty years as a lawyer, Ms. Fisher has developed a significant understanding of complex financial arrangements, risk assessment and mitigation, and governmental relations. She has excellent relationships with Media. 

In the Northwest energy arena, Ms. Fisher has a substantial knowledge of the history of the Northwest energy industry and its challenges, including development of and integration of renewable resources, energy imbalance market efforts and other approaches addressing transmission constraints, Clean Power Plan, and significant experience in rate proceedings and administrative hearings at Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), and other administrative bodies