Stephen J. Burdick

Associate

Stephen J. Burdick is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Energy Practice. Mr. Burdick represents electric utilities and other clients in the nuclear industry on a variety of regulatory and litigation matters before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), other state and federal agencies, and the federal courts. He advises clients on NRC licensing and enforcement proceedings, nuclear safety and regulatory compliance, employment discrimination, prudence of nuclear plant outages, and related matters. He also advises clients regarding government contracts, including intellectual property issues.

Mr. Burdick is actively involved in the licensing of new nuclear plants in the United States. He has been involved in the preparation of early site permit and combined license applications for new nuclear plants and the ongoing NRC review and litigation of these applications. This includes representation of clients before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board and the Commission throughout all stages of litigation, such as oral argument on contention admissibility, contested hearings, and appeals.  He also has been involved in reactor design certification.  Mr. Burdick actively follows and participates in NRC and industry developments related to new nuclear plants.

Mr. Burdick also has been involved in advising international clients in the area of developing new nuclear programs and plants.  He has advised a client in the United Kingdom on a license application to the Office for Nuclear Regulation and has also advised a client on the development of a new nuclear program in the Middle East, including application of international standards to the new program.

Mr. Burdick is involved in other licensing proceedings before the NRC. He has assisted clients in preparing and adjudicating applications for the renewal of reactor operating licenses and has also assisted clients with the adjudication of materials license applications for uranium recovery activities. 

Mr. Burdick earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 2005. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Burdick worked as a nuclear plant engineer for Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL), then a Lockheed Martin Company. Mr. Burdick qualified to operate a nuclear plant and participated in the training of Navy personnel in the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. Mr. Burdick's responsibilities at KAPL included operating the nuclear reactor and related systems at the plant, supervising maintenance and testing of new equipment in the plant, and conducting both in-class and in-plant training of Navy personnel. Mr. Burdick earned his B.S., with honors, in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University in 2000.

Mr. Burdick is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and California and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Sixth and District of Columbia Circuits and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.