Eckert Seamans Member Sarah Stoner Joins Deanne O’Dell as Co-Chairs of Firm’s Regulated Industries Practice Group
April 30, 2026
National law firm Eckert Seamans has named Member Sarah C. Stoner as Co-Chair of the firm’s Regulated Industries practice group, joining Member Deanne M. O’Dell, who has served in the position since January 2024. The practice group encompasses the firm’s Energy, Utilities, and Telecommunications practices.
“Deanne and Sarah bring exceptional depth of experience, strong client relationships, and a clear strategic vision to this role,” said Chris Opalinski, Eckert Seamans’ Litigation Division Chair. “Their combined regulatory insight and leadership will further strengthen our ability to guide clients through increasingly complex regulatory environments.”
O’Dell is former counsel to a commissioner of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and has nearly 20 years of public utility law experience. She represents a diverse client base, including electricity generation suppliers, natural gas suppliers and distribution companies, competitive telecommunications carriers, wireless providers, cable companies, and water utilities. Her practice spans all facets of regulatory law, including business planning, licensing, regulatory compliance, policy advocacy, and monitoring key legislative and regulatory developments.
Stoner has a broad-based regulatory practice concentrating on public utility law and gaming law. In her utility practice, Stoner represents water utilities, electric generation suppliers, natural gas suppliers and distribution companies, gas and electric brokers, and telecommunications and transportation companies before state utility commissions nationwide. Her work in the utility and gaming sectors includes licensing, regulatory compliance, administrative proceedings, policy advocacy, and monitoring of evolving regulatory issues.
Attorneys in Eckert Seamans’ Regulated Industries practice group represent clients across the natural resources, energy, utilities, and telecommunications sectors in local, state, federal, and international regulatory matters. The team also advises on related commercial and transactional matters, as well as antitrust, intellectual property, labor and employment, environmental, and complex litigation issues.