Nora Sheriff

Nora Sheriff is a member of the Energy & Natural Resources Practice Group in Buchalter law firm. With decades of experience in the energy industry, she 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 oil and gas energy companies working to advance a lower-carbon future, municipal utilities, cities, water agencies, and renewable energy systems developers. She 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. In 2025, she was recognized as one of the San Francisco Business Times’ Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business.