About Us
JT Bruce & Associates is a technology and public policy law group specializing in energy, climate change, and technology issues.
Biography
Jim Bruce, President of J.T. Bruce & Associates PLLC, is an attorney, engineer, and consultant with expertise in energy, climate change, and other technology issues related to government policy. He also is an accomplished legislative draftsman. He recently was a partner at Wiley, Rein, LLP in the Government Policy Group in Washington, D.C., assisting corporate clients, including national and multinational companies in major energy intensive industries, on climate change legislation pending in Congress and other energy legislation, including the regulation of automobile fuel economy.
Before his 18 -year term at Wiley Rein, he was the Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources with 13 years service, where he drafted or participated in the drafting of many of our nation’s energy laws, and provided expertise on energy, defense, and appropriations legislation. While in that capacity he also became one of the Senate’s experts on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), co-authoring several reports to the Senate in classified and unclassified editions, based on extensive briefings at the national laboratories and from SDI program officials and defense contractors. Prior to that service, he was Counsel to the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences. During his service on the Hill, Jim also wrote numerous speeches and op-eds for Senators on various energy and defense issues.
He holds a B.S.E. (with Honors) and M.S.E. from Princeton University in aerospace mechanical engineering. His master’s thesis was in the field of automatic feedback control systems. He received his J.D. from George Washington University Law School. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and is a registered patent attorney. He was honorably discharged as a captain in the U.S. Army in the Transportation Corps.