Biographies

Defense against proposed consolidated tax adjustment in a rate to remove approximately $100 million from electric utility revenue requirement;

Demonstration of no adverse impact by unregulated activities on cost of debt in revenue requirements for gas and electric utility rate cases;

Demonstration of capital structures for revenue requirments, including divisional and subsidiary capital structures and preferred stock equivalence to common stock;

Presentation of required ROEs for revenue requirements of gas, electric and telecommunications companies;

Defense of employee compensation, including incentive compensation, in revenue requirements for gas, electric and telecommunications companies;

Representation of groups of ILECs in several intrastate intercarrier compensation proceedings, including multi-week contested case proceedings;

Preparation of comments for ILECs in FCC intercarrier compensation proceedings;

Represenation of a group of ILECs in addressing unidentified traffic issues, including a traffic identification arrangement with Qwest;

Defense of telecommunications companies in affiliated interest investigations;

Defense of current earnings levels in connections with earnings investigations;

Presentation of certification application for state-wide telecommunications network, including multi-week contested case proceeding;

Representation of ILECs in connection with ETC applications of CMRS providers;

Strategic planning and documentation of several telecommunications joint ventures;

Negotiation, documentation and regulatory representation in connection with numerous mergers, sales and acquisition.

Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Bar Association, the Minnesota State Bar Association, the Hennepin County Bar Association and the Federal Communications Bar Association.