Legislative Advocacy

  • Relationship Development - Skilled in building positive relationships and negotiating equitable agreements between decision-makers, regulators, and stakeholders.  Work effectively with policy and appropriations committees in the legislature.
  • Policy Agenda Development and Market Positioning – Effectively promote market positioning and operational considerations through development of a policy agenda and model legislation.
  • Policy Analysis and Research – Effective corporate and legislative C-level communication through development of legislative analyses, information briefs, white papers, and presentations.   Able to facilitate talking points and scripts for supporters or opponents of legislation testifying in committee.
  • Compliance Assistance – Educate multiple corporate divisions; and offer mitigation language for pending legislation.  Engagement to aid clients in complying with requirements imposed by governmental entities.
  • Value Bottom-Line – Effectively negotiate new legislation, and attached regulations, to ensure they are workable for the private sector concerns.  Recommendations have saved companies unnecessary compliance costs.  


Evaluation and Research


  • Policy Evaluation -- Committed to the development of effective public policy. Endeavor to develop thorough research and evaluation to benefits those impacted by the areas we are tasked to evaluate. Seek to develop innovative solutions and improve existing programs we seek to improve current norms in business, social, health, economic, and employment sectors. 
  • Research Capabilities -- A leader in providing rigorous research at the local and state level. Active in an array of policy areas including healthcare, information technology, consumer issues, veterans’ affairs, gaming, tribal affairs, banking, and professional regulation. Providing full life-cycle support for policy concepts from idea to statutory enactment to assist our clients in achieving their goals.
  • Program Implementation -- Committed to aiding clients in developing and implementing a program, practice, or policy is assisted through providing external assessments of processes, implementation, and metric assessments. Evaluation of the overall framework of the proposed or enacted program to see if it is addressing the underlying issue the client is seeking to address.  
  • Program Concepts -- Delve into the basic assumptions of the client in program conceptualization. Examine policy / program effectiveness in serving the intended population or issue.
  • Client Goals -- Ensure that clients meet their ultimate goals. Determine if alternatives could achieve such a goal, such as solutions attempted in other jurisdictions and untested possibilities which show promise to address the issue at hand.


Communications & Alliance Development


  • Strategic Communications Planning - Capable of developing a communication plan to enable clients to educate their constituency, their communities, stakeholders, and elected members regarding the value of their policy agenda. 
  • Consensus Building - Experienced in garnering support from both grassroots and formal organizations to achieve alignment on pending issues.
  • Political Analysis - Drawing on prior experience, capable of providing of comprehensive political analysis enabling clients to wisely engage in the political process.


Issue Casework


  • Issue Tracking - Identify and track public policy issues in legislative and regulatory environments, advise clients of these and potential issues that may be coming to the fore.
  • Client Engagement - Able to work independently to support the client or in concert with internal government relations staff.

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