Phillip J. Russell

Phillip serves as the President of the firm and focuses his practice on energy, utility, and telecommunications matters. He represents a broad spectrum of energy clients, including industrial and commercial energy users, municipal and cooperative utilities, and renewable energy project developers. His representation of commercial and industrial energy customers includes negotiation of power and natural gas purchase and sale agreements, utility contract negotiations, energy project development, utility rate cases, utility litigation and general business litigation. His representation of municipal and cooperative utilities includes project development, contract negotiation, power and gas purchase agreements, regulatory matters and commercial litigation. He has appeared in administrative proceedings before public service commissions in Utah and Wyoming and before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Phillip's energy clients include the Utah Association of Energy Users, which includes Airgas, American Pacific Corporation, Chevron U.S.A., ConocoPhillips, Hexcel Corporation, Intermountain Health Care, Northrup Grumman, Simplot Phosphates, Texas Instruments, Utah State University, and Wal-Mart; Magnum Energy, LLC; US Magnesium LLC; the University of Utah; Payson City; Salem City; Spanish Fork City; St. George City, Deseret Power; and various renewable energy developers. Phillip also represents the Community Renewable Energy Agency in its efforts to develop a Program with Rocky Mountain Power to enable residents in numerous Utah Communities to receive 100% of their electricity needs from renewable resources. Phillip represents telecommunications clients in a broad range of matters, including general litigation matters and with respect to applications filed with the Public Service Commission of Utah seeking a certificate of public convenience and necessity, designation as an eligible telecommunications carrier, and competitive entry. Phillip's recent telecommunications clients include Frontier Communications; SpaceX; Commnet Wireless, LLC; Telrite Corporation, among others. Phillip also handles a wide variety of commercial litigation matters, including disputes related to contracts, trade secrets, patents, real estate development, corporate malfeasance, business torts, and real property disputes, among others. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Phillip J. Russell included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors "Utah’s Legal Elite” – Utah Business Magazine “Rising Star” – Mountain States Super Lawyers “Super Lawyer” – Mountain States Super Lawyers Other Sources of Feedback About Phillip J. Russell Included on the 2026Mountain States Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 Mountain States Super Lawyers list 2024 Mountain States Super Lawyers list 2023 Mountain States Super Lawyers list 2020 Mountain States Super Lawyers list 2019 Mountain States Super Lawyers list 2018 Mountain States Super Lawyers list 2017 Mountain States Super Lawyers list 2016 Mountain States Super Lawyers list 2015 Mountain States Super Lawyers list 2014 Mountain States Super Lawyers list 2013 Mountain States Super Lawyers list 2012 Mountain States Rising Stars Super Lawyers list 2011 Mountain States Super Lawyers list 2010 Mountain States Super Lawyers list

• Partner
• Representative Clients
• Utah Association of Energy Users
• Air Gas
• American Pacific
• Chevron
• ConocoPhillips
• Deseret Power
• Energy Strategies
• Hexcel
• Intermountain Health Care
• Texas Instruments
• Northrup Grumman
• Payson City
• Salem City
• Simplot
• Spanish Fork City
• Space Exploration Corporation Technologies (SpaceX)
• St. George City
• University of Utah
• US Magnesium
• Utah State University

• Utah
• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
• United States Supreme Court

• Aldon J. Anderson American Inn of Court, 2007-present
• President, Aldon J. Anderson American Inn of Court, 2018-2019