During my career as an Administrator in a large urban School District I had many occasions to engage with Attorneys. My work with Attorney Carolyn Elefant however was as a member of small association of property owners trying to overcome a major challenge to our rural Massachusetts Town by a Major Energy Company seeking approval from FERC for a huge gas Pipeline Project through our land. Her help, advice, and skill were of the highest caliber. She masterfully encouraged our participation in the process of researching the details being proposed. She listened to our findings of fact and our proposals regarding objections to the actions and proposals of the energy company and our criticisms of the findings of the government agencies and commissions. She read the documents and created a plan of action that has given us hope in spite of the overwhelming odds in favor of the energy firm.

Carolyn Elefant has been an exceptional attorney for my New York community. Her extensive experience with FERC policy is well known among other prominent attorneys. Without a doubt the progress and successes my community has achieved is due to her hard work, commitment to our case, and expertise in NEPA Law and the FERC process. She keeps a constant open line of communication and answers any questions her clients may have promptly. She is extremely thorough and the reason my community has a fighting chance!

Our case against the Millennium pipeline would, in my opinion, be lost or at best hanging on by a thread if we hadn't found Carolyn. We had retained a lawyer earlier who did very little except offer advice about what we should be doing early in the process. We were at a key point in our case, she jumped in, figured out what had to be done, worked long hours to put together a comprehensive document explaining all of the information/arguments we had raised, citing past decisions that clearly supported our position, and pointed out the procedural errors in FERC's handling of our case to that point. She's responded to every question we've asked, setting up a clear communication system, telling us exactly what she would like to do and why, or what she doesn't think is either worth our time or could backfire. She's never missed a deadline or not had time to get our feedback on anything that she does or submits - and often sends emails in the middle of the night so we have time to get back to her the next day. We now feel that we have a decent chance of winning against the tremendous odds any group faces when they try to stop a gas company from doing something. In my opinion, that is only because we were lucky enough to find her when we badly needed a lawyer who knew what to do and got going on it immediately.