E. Glenn Rippie
E. Glenn Rippie is a founding partner at Rooney Rippie & Ratnaswamy LLP. Mr. Rippie is a member of the
firm’s energy and infrastructure and litigation practice areas. His practice focuses on counseling energy
clients in regulatory, operational, and commercial matters including strategic planning, and regulatory
counseling and trial and appellate work.
Chambers USA – America’s Leading Business Lawyers has consistently named Mr. Rippie a #1-rated Illinois
energy lawyer; he is the only lawyer to have been so rated for ten straight years. He has also been cited
on many occasions by The Best Lawyers in America®, Illinois Super Lawyers, and the Illinois Leading Lawyers Network® for his excellence in energy and administrative law.*
Mr. Rippie is a member of the bar of Illinois and of the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central
Districts of Illinois, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a
member of the American Bar Association and its Public Utilities, Litigation, and Natural Resources, Energy
& Environmental Law Sections, the Chicago Bar Association and its Public Utilities Committee, and the
Energy Bar Association.
Experience
Mr. Rippie has served as lead counsel in the preparation and litigation of numerous electric and natural
gas rate cases. He has also served as counsel in appeals related to utility rate cases. He has been in
practice for more than 30 years, focusing on wholesale and retail energy sales, including representing
utilities in each of the recent general supply procurement proceedings in which Illinois electric utilities
have been supplied with over $20 billion of electricity, capacity and related services.
Mr. Rippie represents electric and natural gas industry clients on complex regulatory, operational, and
financial issues in engagements ranging from corporate strategy to complex litigation before regulatory
agencies and the courts. Representative engagements include:
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umerous general and delivery rate proceedings, and approvals of special purpose riders (e.g., meter
deployment, main / service connection replacement);
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rudence and performance investigations, including investigations of interruptions and system or
equipment failures;
Planning, designing, permitting, and constructing new production and transmission facilities;
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egulation and deployment of new services and capabilities, such as AMI meters and other Smart
Grid technologies,
Wholesale energy acquisition, including statewide electric supply procurement; and
Purchase and sale of utility business and assets.
Professional Activities
Mr. Rippie is a member of the American Bar Association and its Public Utilities, Litigation, and Natural
Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Sections, the Chicago Bar Association and its Energy, Telecommunications and Water law committee, and the Energy Bar Association.
Education and Bar Admissions
Mr. Rippie received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1985, where he was a Coker Fellow. He is also trained
in economics and mathematical modeling, having received an A.B., with highest distinction, and an M.A.
in mathematics and economics from Northwestern University in 1982.
Mr. Rippie is licensed in Illinois and admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and
Central Districts of Illinois, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the United States
Supreme Court.
Representative Matters
epresented electric utility in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 rate proceedings before,
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including Illinois’ first-ever formula rate case.
Represented electric utility in multiple proceedings seeking tariff revisions.
Represented electric utility in distributed generation rulemaking proceedings.
Email: glenn.rippie@r3law.com
Tel: 312-447-2828
Fax: 312-447-2899
Practice Areas
Energy and Infrastructure
Litigation
Education
J.D. The Yale Law School.
Coker Fellow in Civil Procedure.
M.A. Northwestern University,
Economics. Concentrated in
econometrics and mathematical
modeling of economic systems
and development.
A.B. Northwestern University,
Economics and MMSS
(Mathematical Methods in the
Social Sciences), with Highest
Distinction.
Admissions and Qualifications
• U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court for the
Central District of Illinois
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit
• United States Supreme Court
Prior Experience
Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
epresented and counseled electric utility on all aspects of 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 annual
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power procurement plans and related proceedings.
epresented electric utility in administrative proceedings related to state-mandated multi-decade
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“clean coal” sourcing agreement and related appellate proceedings.
epresented electric utility in capacity charge investigation proceedings; obtained Order
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specifically finding utility’s methodology to be consistent with its approved tariffs and
transmission tariffs, and that no modifications to tariffs were necessary.
* The Illinois Supreme Court does not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law and no award or recognition is a requirement to practice law in Illinois.