For over a decade Poyner Spruill has served as lead counsel to the organization of municipalities that provides electric service to local consumers,
ElectriCities. The firm also serves as counsel to individual cities and regularly advises them on a wide range of municipal law issues, many of which involve matters requiring litigation or arbitration. Firm attorneys have been particularly active during recent years in litigating commercial utility disputes, territorial service disputes between municipalities and others, including electrical power companies and rural electric cooperatives, and in major litigation involving contractual rights of several municipalities as part owners of a nuclear power plant.