Paul J. Phillips

Paul J. Phillips is a regulatory and business lawyer and Shareholder and Vice President at Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer PC. He is a regulatory lawyer who advises highly regulated entities, with particular emphasis on telecommunications and utility matters. His practice includes licensing, compliance, enforcement, business formations and dissolutions, mergers and acquisitions, consumer protection, customer service issues, commercial contracts, and related administrative proceedings.

Paul earned a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and a B.A., cum laude, from Williams College. His education supports a practice that combines legal analysis, regulatory strategy, business transactions, and advocacy before government bodies. That background helps him work through jurisdictional and administrative questions while advising clients whose operations are shaped by changing regulatory requirements and public policy.

Paul has litigated utility cases before state agencies and courts and has developed legislative solutions for clients involving alternative regulation, deregulation, broadband funding, universal service programs, and restructuring of state regulatory agencies. He served as outside General Counsel to the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative from 2021 to 2024 and previously chaired the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights.

Paul J. Phillips is admitted in Vermont and New Hampshire and serves on Primmer’s Government Relations team. His work blends regulatory counsel, litigation, transactions, and legislative strategy for utilities and other regulated organizations. By addressing compliance requirements, business changes, administrative proceedings, and policy developments, he helps clients manage legal obligations while pursuing operational and organizational goals in heavily regulated environments. His experience spans telecommunications, energy regulation, and public policy matters.

Law Office Affiliations

• Shareholder, Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer PC
• Member, New Hampshire Bar Association
• Member, Vermont Bar Association
• Member, Electric Cooperative Bar Association
• Chair, New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights (2015-2018)
• Chair, Town of Plymouth (NH) Energy Commission (2010-2013)
• Chair, Permit Review Committee, City of Montpelier (Vt.) (2003-2004)
• Chair, Advisory Committee on Civic Education to the Vermont Commissioner of Education (1998-2006)
• Member, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

Licensed State

• New Hampshire
• Vermont

Education

• Northeastern University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Williams College
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Cum Laude)

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