Areas of Practice
Education
- The University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., 1974, Hague Academy of International Law, Den Hague, Netherlands; Athens Legal Aid Society; Vice President of Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity; Moot Court Board; Attorney aide, Legal Aid Society, Athens, Georgia
- University of Georgia/Emory University, B.A., 1971, cum laude; Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia, 1978
- Georgia, 1974
Court Admissions
- D.C. Cir., 1978
- E.D. Ga., 1974
- S.D. Ga., 1975
Of counsel to the firm, Russell King received his bachelor of business administration degree, cum laude, in 1971, and his juris doctor degree in 1974 from the University of Georgia. Mr. King was in private practice in Savannah, Georgia from 1974–1975. In late 1975, he joined the Office of United States Senator Herman E. Talmadge in Washington D.C. as Legislative Assistant and Counsel and, subsequently, Legislative Director, where he was responsible for tax, trade, energy, and agricultural issues. In 1979, Mr. King moved to Atlanta, Georgia to join Southern Railway as Special Representative. He returned to Washington, D.C. in 1980, as Counsel to Freeport Minerals Company.
Mr. King currently serves as Senior Vice President of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, an international natural resource company, as well as senior vice president of McMoRan Exploration Company, an independent oil and gas exploration company headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mr. King joined Jones Walker in 2001, represents Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold and McMoRan Exploration Inc., on policy matters before the United States Congress and federal agencies, as well as before the Governments of Indonesia, Chile, Peru, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Algeria.
Memberships
- American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce (Member, Board of Directors)
- District of Columbia Bar
- Gridiron Secret Society, University of Georgia Chapter (Member)
- State Bar of Georgia
- US-ASEAN Business Council (Member, Board of Directors and Executive Committee; Secretary)
- United States-Algeria Business Council (Member, Board of Directors)
- United States-Indonesia Society (Member, Board of Directors)
- U.S. Department of Commerce Industry Trade Advisory Committees VI, Energy (Member)
- Washington Center Advisory Committee for the Asia Society (Member)
