Michel, a BGM partner, joined the firm in 1976. He concentrates on federal regulation of the natural gas industry, including interstate and intrastate gas pipeline tariffs, contracts, ratemaking and services, and new interstate and intrastate gas pipeline and storage facilities and project planning. Recently, Michel has worked on a regasified liquefied natural gas (LNG) deepwater port license application before the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD), U.S. Coast Guard, Minerals Management Service (MMS), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and other federal agencies, including FERC. His clients have included interstate and intrastate gas pipelines, investor-owned and municipally-owned gas distributors, the regasified LNG import deepwater port applicant, gas marketing companies, oil pipelines, and electric utilities. He has authored numerous articles for law journals and trade magazines, including an article on energy market manipulation in the May 2008 Energy Law Journal.

Before joining BGM, Michel was in private practice at Wald, Harkrader & Ross in Washington, D.C., representing clients before several federal agencies and courts of appeals. Earlier, he served as a law clerk to Circuit Judge Roger Robb at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Michel graduated from Washington and Lee University and from the University of Virginia School of Law. He was awarded the Humanitarian Trust Senior Studentship in Public International Law at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, receiving a Diploma in International Law from Cambridge. A member of the Energy Bar Association, he has served on its Board of Directors and as Chairman of its Committees on Natural Gas Rate and Accounting Regulations and on Practice and Procedure. He is also an American Bar Association member. Michel is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia in addition to various federal appellate courts and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia

• Virginia

• Admitted to practice in: various federal appellate courts, U.S. Supreme Court

Education

• Queens' College, University of Cambridge, D.I.L. (1974): Humanitarian Trust Senior Studentship in Public International Law

• University of Virginia School of Law, LL.B. (1972): Managing Board, Virginia Journal of International Law

• Washington and Lee University, A.B. (1966): Honors with Exceptional Distinction in English

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Energy Bar Association

- Board of Directors, 1991-1994

- Chairman, Natural Gas Rate and Accounting Regulations Committee, 1984-1985

- Chairman, Committee on Practice and Procedure, 1987-1988

• American Bar Association