More About Russ

After a decade at the intersection of healthcare law and policy, Russ Barnwell founded Russell E. Barnwell, P.C. as a platform to help healthcare organizations, professionals and other persons and associations doing business in the industries and supply chains constellating American healthcare.  In particular, Russ advises clients who operate as, do business with or invest in federally regulated healthcare providers and business entities, and his practice broadly centers around the legal, regulatory and operational realities undergirding the provision of—and payment for—healthcare services and supplies. 

Russ first developed an affinity for healthcare law and policy at Huntingdon College, where he also served as class president, editor-in-chief of the college's literary journal and founding president of the first collegiate chapter of a national service organization.  Throughout his undergraduate career, Russ explored healthcare policy in academic theses, in whitepapers for thinktanks (including a medical education pipeline proposal which has since been implemented) and through community activism garnering media attention.  Following graduation, he helped lead the efforts of Bama Covered, a nonpartisan grassroots effort focused on educating Alabamians about health insurance in the wake of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  

Russ went on to attend the University of Chicago Law School in 2014, where he was elected class representative his first year and was re-elected to the position in each subsequent year, eventually serving as vice president of the law school's student government during his third year.  Russ spent the summer after his first year of law school at a boutique litigation firm in Chicago, and he spent the summer after his second year in the private equity and healthcare practice groups of Ropes & Gray.  Upon graduation, Russ moved to Manhattan and joined the healthcare practice group at Ropes & Gray.  

In July 2020, Russ returned to Alabama to found Bama Recovered—a nonprofit offering solutions to healthcare providers in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic—before continuing the practice of healthcare law, first with a local law firm and now through his own firm.  Over the course of his career, Russ has advised clients on myriad corporate and regulatory matters, and he has developed a reputation for careful, pragmatic advice that orients legal and regulatory compliance within each client's own business model and operational framework.

In his spare time, Russ enjoys live music, good books and exploring Alabama's beautiful ecological menagerie (and, obviously, he watches Succession).