After graduation from Rutgers College and Boston University Law School, Mr. Shain entered the Army and served in Vietnam, where as a Captain, he was a company commander and was awarded the Bronze Star for Meritorious Achievement. Upon his return to the States, Mr. Shain took his first legal position with the NJ State Attorney General’s Office and served as Chief Counsel to the Department of Banking. While Chief Counsel, Mr. Shain assisted in the development of legislation that permitted banks to form holding companies and to establish branches state-wide. Upon entering private law practice, in which he has been engaged for over 40 years, Mr. Shain was honored by his peers through selection as Chairman of both the Banking Law Section and the Administrative Law Section of the NJ State Bar Association. In those capacities, he was instrumental in developing and promulgating plain language consumer legislation in NJ. Mr. Shain is a former 2 term Mayor of the City of Orange and is a founder of Suburban Cablevision, now a part of Comcast. Mr. Shain, who presently serves as Special Counsel to the NJ State League of Municipalities, provided the legal representation to the Township of Monroe, Middlesex County in the successful establishment of NJ’s first customer choice electrical aggregation program. On behalf of the League and AARP, Mr. Shain has testified before NJ State Senate and Assembly Committees, has represented both groups at hearings involving the deregulation legislation before the BPU, and has lectured and written extensively on issues relating to energy deregulation and governmental aggregation of energy services. Mr. Shain successfully represented both the League and AARP before the BPU resulting in the establishment of the Universal Service Fund, a $30 million fund to help poor and low-income families pay their gas and electric bills, a program to be financed by a small surcharge on customers’ bills.