Nora Sheriff

Nora Sheriff

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Awarded Practice Areas
Energy Law Natural Resources Law
Awarded Practice Areas
Energy Law Natural Resources Law
Nora Sheriff
Nora Sheriff
San Francisco, CA
Works at
Buchalter LLP

130 Best Lawyers awards

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Biography

Nora Sheriff is a Shareholder in Buchalter’s San Francisco office and a member of the Firm’s Energy & Natural Resources Practice Group. With decades of experience in the energy industry, Ms. Sheriff focuses her practice on electric and natural gas regulatory and administrative litigation, legislative efforts, and end-use contractual transactions; she works to ensure clean energy tools are available for large end-use customer use to help mitigate the impacts of the high cost of California power on California manufacturing and avoid carbon emissions leakage by keeping manufacturing in California. Her clients include cement, steel, industrial gas, pipeline, mining, beverage, food packaging and cold storage industry corporations, oil and gas energy companies working to advance a lower carbon future, as well as wholesale demand response providers, scheduling coordinator/distributed energy resource aggregators, integration technology solutions providers and renewable energy systems developers. Ms. Sheriff represents large power customers and clean power stakeholders, informs, and helps shape California’s energy policy debates, and advocates for clean energy and large end-user ratepayer interests.

Works at
Buchalter LLP

130 Best Lawyers awards

Buchalter LLP logo

Locations

Education

  • University of California Hastings College of the Law, J.D., graduated 2000

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
  • Energy Law
  • Natural Resources Law
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Corporate Law

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