Madeline H. Shanahan

Maddie has advised private and public clients on pressing regulatory issues, including contract disputes, public utility disputes and issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, among others. Maddie has represented clients in diverse industries with matters in state court, federal court and administrative tribunals. She has experience leading discovery for state and federal cases by conducting depositions, drafting and responding to discovery requests and coordinating with experts, when necessary. She has performed document review for complex matters, including revising all documents for the Chapter 7 Trustee in a multi-million-dollar bankruptcy filing. In addition, she has conducted research and drafted documents including dispositive motions, complaints, demand letters, and client-facing and internal memoranda.

Maddie joined Calfee in 2021 from a regional law firm where she gained experience as a Litigation Associate. She served as a Judicial Extern for Justice Patrick Fischer of the Supreme Court of Ohio, where she assisted the justice and judicial clerks in proceedings and pretrial conferences, prepared bench memoranda and drafted judicial opinions on civil and criminal cases. Prior roles also include Compliance Intern with the Abercrombie & Fitch legal department in Columbus, Ohio, and Policy Legal Fellow with Young Invincibles in Washington, D.C.

Maddie earned her J.D. from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 2019, where she served as Articles Editor and Executive Board Member of The Ohio State Business Law Journal, as well as Board Member and Social Committee Chair of the Student Bar Association. Maddie was also a Moritz Admissions Ambassador and Mentor for incoming Moritz College of Law students. She earned her B.A., cum laude, in Economics and Public Policy from Tulane University.

Honors & Recognitions

• Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Insurance Law (2023-2025), and Commercial Litigation and Litigation - Labor and Employment (2024-2025)
• Ohio Super Lawyers, Ohio Rising Stars, Business Litigation (2024-2025)

Education

J.D., The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Articles Editor, Executive Board Member of The Ohio State Business Law Journal, 2019

B.A., Economics and Public Policy, cum laude, Tulane University, 2016

Experience

Representative Business, Corporate, and Commercial Litigation Matters

• Calfee is serving as lead litigation counsel to two former owners/officers as well as a separate and distinct but related neuroscience-focused nonprofit organizations on the West Coast in a matter involving the plaintiffs and defendants who jointly owned (or own) and managed (or manage) a neuroscience-focused private company in the Midwest that is actively engaged in ground-breaking and important scientific and intellectual property-based research and fundraising. Calfee’s clients allege that they have been victimized and mistreated by the Defendant company and its current management personnel and have been negatively impacted by intentional and negligent misconduct and poor decisions, which misconduct has harmed Plaintiffs directly, as well as the Midwestern Neuroscience company.
• Calfee is representing a mutual health insurance company in several litigation matters, specifically: (1) a class action lawsuit challenging the client's practices in connection with "value-based contracting" with medical providers; (2) a class action lawsuit challenging the client's practices also in connection with "value-based contracting" by medical providers but with a larger putative class; (3) an action alleging the breach of our client's agreements with two national insurance providers.

Representative Energy and Utilities Matters

• Calfee served as lead regulatory litigation counsel for an independent electric transmission holding company. Calfee represented the client in contested matters regarding a Petition for a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity to operate an electric transmission system and a complaint case associated with the CPCN.
• Calfee is serving as co-counsel to public utility companies providing natural gas distribution services in relation to its request for a rate increase. We also provided guidance with Intervenor Compensation rulemaking and Thermal Energy Network policy development.
• Calfee is serving as regulatory counsel for a municipal government located in the Midwest. We are helping the client develop and prosecute approval for an underground pedestrian passageway. Presently, the matter is being contested by a publicly traded, Fortune 500 transportation company.
• Calfee is providing legal and regulatory strategy, managing the development of the filing and expert testimony, and drafted tariff language, a transmittal letter, and pre-filed testimony for an independent organization that manages and administers significant energy markets in North America.
• Calfee is providing legal strategy and defense of a complaint filed against an independent organization that manages and administers significant energy markets in North America. Specifically, Calfee is assisting the client in the defense of a complaint brought by a national solar energy trade association, alleging that the client's Tariff is unjust and unreasonable.
• Calfee is providing direction on legal and regulatory strategy, draft filing, and pre-filed testimony and assisting in regulatory compliance and discovery processes for an independent organization that manages and administers significant energy markets in North America. Specifically, Calfee manages the stakeholder processes and presentations and assists with the client’s compliance with FERC Order No. 2222 directing RTOs to allow distributed energy resources (DER) to participate in wholesale electricity markets. This matter is of high importance to the client and involves FERC’s direction in Order No. 2222 and removes barriers to allow DERs to participate in wholesale markets, therefore expanding the grid to previously precluded resources. The rules developed through the stakeholder engagement and filings related to this FERC’s mandate will allow the expansion of wholesale market participation to aggregations of smart residential devices like thermostats and electric vehicle chargers.

Professional & Community

• Ohio Bar Association, Member
• Junior League of Cincinnati, Member
• Meals on Wheels, Volunteer