David Huang
Associate
David Huang specializes in helping clients overcome regulatory hurdles within the communications and energy utility sectors through compliance, administrative advocacy, and policy-based solutions. He uses his experience in administrative law, California Public Utilities Commission practice and procedure, statutory interpretation, and state-level utilities policy to help clients navigate complex legal and compliance issues in telecommunications, energy, and other regulated utilities.
Prior to joining DWT, David’s practice included advocating and developing policy positions for small telecommunications companies in CPUC general rate cases and rulemaking proceedings. David brings with him extensive knowledge of the CPUC regulatory processes and propensities, which are informed by his former roles within the commission’s Administrative Law Judge Division, Legal Division, and Energy Division. David trained in equity policy framing in the utilities space as a postgraduate legal fellow.
Admitted to Practice
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California, 2017
Education
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B.A. and B.S., Political Science and Psychology, University of California, San Diego, 2011
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J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 2015
- Note Editor, Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy
- Co-president, Hastings Environmental Law Association
Languages
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Mandarin
Memberships & Affiliations
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- Bar Association of San Francisco
- Asian American Bar Association
- American Bar Association, Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section
- Conference of California Public Utility Counsel
Background
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- Associate, Cooper, White & Cooper, San Francisco, 2018-2019
- Public Utility Regulatory Analyst, California Public Utilities Commission, 2017-2018
- Legal Fellow, The Greenlining Institute, Berkeley, California, 2015-2016
- Law Clerk, Office of Grants and Debarment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 2014
- Law Clerk, California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, 2013, 2015