With a commitment to understanding fully each client's mission, Nick Kile focuses on adding value to help them accomplish it. He seeks innovative solutions that are grounded in the law and fact and that align with the big picture business goals. Nick concentrates his practice in two distinct substantive legal disciplines, including representing utilities before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) in virtually all types of regulatory matters and guiding municipalities through myriad legal matters.

Nick’s utilities experience includes general rate cases, securitization, certificate of public convenience and necessity and other preapproval proceedings for environmental controls or capacity additions, mergers and acquisitions, territorial authorizations and disputes, and other regulatory law matters. He has worked on over 100 IURC general rate cases involving electricity, gas, and water and wastewater. His rate case experience ranges from the largest utilities in the state to some of the smallest.

Experience
  • Days before the November 2008 election, the plaintiff sought an injunction preventing an issue from going on the ballot regarding the removal of the local water utility from the jurisdiction of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. The trial court denied the injunction and dismissed. Manigault v. St. Joseph Election Board et al.
  • Defended IURC order declaring Indiana-American's right to provide service notwithstanding a municipal ordinance prohibiting the provision of service in certain areas.
Credentials

Education

  • Butler University, B.A., 1987, cum laude, high honors in accounting
  • Indiana University-Bloomington, J.D., 1990, summa cum laude, member of Indiana Law Journal, ranked first in class

Bar Admissions

  • Indiana

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Clerkships

  • HonorableJesse E. Eschback, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1990 - 1991
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