John A. Shope

Representative Experience

• Obtained dismissals of three consumer class actions in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court based on arguments for change in governing law
• Obtained dismissals of consumer class actions against internet and technology firms based on arbitration clauses in customer agreements
• Obtained summary judgment dismissing proposed tuition refund class action claims against nationally ranked university with multiple campuses throughout the United States. 
• Defeated class certification of suit against financial services company despite uniform disclosures
• Defeated proposed multi-billion dollar pipeline subsidy in state regulatory proceedings
• Successfully tried defense of a suit seeking to invalidate a power purchase agreement valued in excess of $40 million due to long term gas supply restructurings
• Represented the State of New Hampshire in a constitutional challenge to the deregulation of the electric utility industry
• Obtained $2 million arbitration award from the American Arbitration Association's International Centre for Dispute Resolution over mismanagement of a power plant in Guyana
• Represented private equity fund in successful international arbitration over power plant in North Africa
• Arbitrated successor gas indices in power purchase agreement
• Represented power plant in challenge and successful settlement of pipeline repair cost allocation dispute at Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities
• Represented a generation company in a constitutional challenge to taxation of hydroelectric generating units
• Represented generators successfully challenging proposed electric ratepayer-funded multi-billion dollar gas pipeline
• Represented generators opposing subsidized billion-dollar international transmission line
• Represented generator opposing price-suppression aspects of competitor's proposed liability must-run agreement