Kathy Jo Kolich

     Hello, and thank you for your interest in me as your attorney.  I have been an attorney since 1987, working as in house counsel at Ohio Edison Company (nka FirstEnergy Corp) until 2014.  Duirng my time at FirstEnergy, I also held several management positions onboth the regulated and unregulated sides of the electric industry, including director or rates and regulatory affairs, executive director of retail energy transactions, and general manager of the E Group, an energy consulting subsidiary of FirstEnergy.  

     I retired from FirstEnergy in 2014 and have opened a private practice.  While most of my practice is in state utility regulation, with an emphasis in energy efficiency, renewable energy and smart grid technologies, I also have experience as a general corpoate lawyer, with an emphasis in corporate transactions, litigation and start up businesses. My firm is also associated with experts in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, trusts and estates and entertainment law.

    I am a graduate of The Ohio State University, having received both my bachelor of science degree in Business Administration (summa cum laude) and my juris doctor degree there.  I am a licensed attorney in Ohio and Pennsylvania and a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in the State of Colorado.   Prior to becoming an attorney, I worked as a financial auditor/CPA for Price Waterhouse Company in Denver, Colorado.