In addition to authoring articles, Morrill has
been periodically mentioned in publications such
as the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and
Crain’s Chicago Business (e.g., S. Swanson,
“In Springfield, keep it simple; a guide
to lobbying for business,” Crain’s
Chicago Business, p. 24 (Aug. 1, 2005). Morrill
regularly speaks before professional and trade
associations on lobbying-related subjects, and
has been recognized by his lawyer peers as a top
practitioner in his field, through selection as
a “Leading Lawyer.” He is a member
of both the Illinois Bar Association and Chicago
Bar Association.
“The Attack of the Torrents and Trackers:
Grokster as Yesterday’s News (with Greg
Carlson),”
Telephony On-Line, September 1, 2005
“The PUC Stops Here,”
Telephony, November 3, 2003
“Cable’s Triple Crown Bundle,”
X-Change Magazine, August 2003
“Do Cell Phone Users Need a Bill of Rights?,”
Outlook On-Line, Hudson Institute,
May 1, 2003
“The Bittersweet Smell of Success (with
Greg Mycio),”
America’s Network Magazine, March,
2002
“Is Rome Burning? (with Craig M. Clausen
and Steven Weinberg),”
Telephony Magazine, June, 2001
“CLECs Grow Up,”
X-Change Magazine, September, 1999
“State of the CLECs: 1999,”
America’s Network Magazine, July,
1999
“Refuting the New Anti-Competition Mantra
(with Craig M. Clausen),”
X-Change Magazine, June, 1998
“Let’s Talk Smack (with Craig M.
Clausen),”
X-Change Magazine, May, 1998
“1997 Trends: CLECs on the Road to Diversification
(with Dick Tomlinson),”
X-Change Magazine, February, 1997
“Utility Age Alchemey: ETCs Become IUFs
(with Dick Tomlinson and Craig M. Clausen),”
X-Change Magazine, January, 1997
“Public Capital Market Opportunities
for the CLECs (with Craig M. Clausen),”
X-Change Magazine, December, 1996
“Low Income Electric Customers and the
Transition to Competition: Choice Through Technology
(with Philip R. O’Connor and Erik B. Jacobson),”
October 2, 1995
“Pulling the “Reverse Trigger”:
A Way to Define Local Competition
(with Craig M. Clausen),”
Fortnightly Magazine, June 15, 1994
“Regulation or Technology? Low Income
Customers and the Transition to Competition
(with Philip R. O’Connor and Erik B. Jacobson),”
Public Utilities Fortnightly, November
15, 1995
“Progressive Choice: The Customer As
Regulator
(With Philip R. O’Connor and Craig M.
Clausen),”
Electric Utilities Moving Into the 21st Century,
Ed. Gregory B. Enholm and Robert Malko,
Public Utilities Report Press, 1994
“Telecommunications Free Trade Zones
Reprinted in,” Regulatory Responses to
Continuously Changing Industry Structures, Michigan
State University Public Utilities Paper,
1993
“Avoiding the Coming Irrelevance: A 10-Point
Plan,”
Teletimes, Fall 1993
“Tear Down the Walls,”
Telephony, October 11, 1993
“The Challenge for Incentive Regulation,”
Public Utilities Fortnightly, June
15, 1992
“The Electric Industry’s New Paradigm,”
Public Utilities Fortnightly, July
15, 1991
“Transmission and Ratebase, A Marriage
Not Made in Heaven,
(with Ashley Brown),”
Public Utilities Fortnightly, June
11, 1991
“Standing Under the Urban Mass Transportation
Act,”
Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol. 4 No.
2 (1978)
“Giving States VoIP Oversight Would Dampen
Innovation,”
Crain’s Chicago Business, February
21, 2005
“Kerry Energy Plan Would Challenge Laws
of Nature,”
Crain’s Chicago Business, September
6, 2004
“Kerry’s Enigmatic Energy Plan,”
Techcentralstation.com, August 27,
2004
“AT&T Bows Out: When Less is More
in Telco Business,”
Chicago Sun Times, July 26, 2004
“In Latest Twist in Telecom Wars, Is
the End at Hand?,”
Crain’s Chicago Business, July
19, 2004
“Solution to Energy Woes Lies Here in
North America”
Crain’s Chicago Business, May
3, 2004
“Alternative Energy will Benefit all
Americans,”
Chicago Tribune, April 15, 2004
“Kerry’s Enervating Energy Plan,”
Chicago Tribune, April 4, 2004
“Cell Phone Rules,”
Chicago Tribune, March 9, 2004
“Are Phone Rates Going Up?,”
Chicago Tribune, May 18, 2003
“Promises, Promises: What Local Phone
Competition?,”
Chicago Tribune, March, 2002
“Free Markets and the Fall of Enron,”
Chicago Tribune, December, 2001
“Green Energy Is Great, But We Still
Must Dig and Drill,”
Chicago Sun-Times, June, 2001
“How About Ringing Up a Profit on Those
Valuable Area Codes?,”
Chicago Tribune, February 21, 1995
“Turn Telecom Companies Loose,”
The Journal of Commerce, August 3,
1993
“Washington’s New Energy Tax,”
The Journal of Commerce, July 20, 1993
“Clinton’s Energy Tax,”
The Wall Street Journal, March 3, 1993
“Carbon Taxes and Utilities Bills,”
The Journal of Commerce, January 4,
1993
“Bush’s New Enviro-Energy Model,”
Chicago Tribune, August 25, 1991