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Robert P. Reffner is FirstEnergy's senior vice president and chief legal officer, with responsibility for Legal, Corporate Secretary, Ethics, Risk and Internal Auditing, and the Innovation Center..
He joined FirstEnergy as vice president, Legal, in 2007 and was elected senior vie president and general counsel in 2018. He was named to his
current position in May 2020. Earlier in his career, Reffner served as a partner at Brouse McDowell, a business law firm in northeastern Ohio. Reffner was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1977 and is a member of the Ohio State and Akron Bar associations. He was listed in Best Lawyers in America for many years while in private practice, specializing in corporate law. In addition, he also has been recognized as one of northeast Ohio’s leading lawyers by Inside Business. was listed in Northern Ohio Live as one of the region’s top lawyers, and was named an Ohio Super Lawyer by Cincinnati Magazine.
