Bradley Arant understands that the legal, legislative and business problems and opportunities facing our clients are often interrelated. This interrelationship requires that the development of comprehensive strategies to address and provide solutions to those problems and opportunities must include a clear knowledge and awareness of the role that the governmental process, at the national, state and local levels, plays in today's world. We work closely with our clients to develop focused, cost effective strategies in the governmental affairs area that both complement our clients' ongoing legal and business strategies and are designed to achieve their overall goals and objectives. Bradley Arant is the State of Alabama's pre-eminent public policy practice. Working closely with our clients to develop focused, cost effective strategies in legislative and executive arenas to achieve their overall goals and objectives is a trait common to Bradley Arant attorneys.
Our Governmental Affairs Team is staffed with long-term experienced professionals in national, state, and local legislative and executive processes, and is supported by lawyers from a number of our other practice groups. This multidisciplinary approach enables us to provide our clients with the broad range of experience needed to address their specific needs.
Our governmental affairs practice encompasses a full range of services in this area including:
- Drafting, review, analysis, and monitoring of legislation and regulatory issues, and development and implementation of strategies to achieve governmental objectives
- Preparation of witnesses to testify at congressional and other governmental hearings
- Arranging and participating in meetings with legislative and executive officeholders and staff, advocacy before government decision makers
- Participation on behalf of clients in national trade association meetings and work groups
- Establishment and administration of PACs
- Preparation of reports regarding local, state and federal campaign finance laws
- Development and implementation of political contribution strategies
- Advice and compliance work regarding the Federal Lobbying Disclosure Act, the Alabama Fair Campaign Practices Act, energy and other controlling statutes and regulations
- Development and management of coalitions of corporations and associations with common interests
- Development and implementation of multi-forum strategies for public advocacy through public and media relations, lobbying, marketing, and multimedia deployment to foster legislative support for issues or supplement crisis management strategies.
Our governmental affairs lawyers represent clients from a number of different industries, including the transportation, communications, construction, textile manufacturing, utilities, natural resources, transportation, health care, housing, trade and banking industries. In addition to our private sector clients, we also represent a number of public sector clients.
