Discipline

Legislative & Policy Practice.

Bipartisan representation before Congress, federal agencies, and state legislatures.

The chambers maintains a dedicated Legislative Practice representing clients before the U.S. Congress, the executive branch, federal regulatory agencies, and state legislatures. The work is registered, disciplined, and integrated with our regulatory practice where co-ordinated representation is required — and conducted separately where it is not.

Legislative work is, properly understood, the connective discipline between commercial strategy and policy outcome. Clients instruct us when a matter is consequential enough to require senior representation, careful co-ordination across stakeholders, and the credibility that comes from years of relationships built on candour and substantive expertise.

Our legislative practitioners include former senior congressional staff, former executive-branch officials, and seasoned policy counsel. The practice operates across the political spectrum and maintains substantive depth in the policy areas where our clients most frequently engage: financial regulation, higher education, healthcare, energy, technology, trade and sanctions, and tax. Every engagement is registered where the law requires it, and disclosed where it would not otherwise be.

Areas of work

What we are instructed on.

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Federal legislative representation (Congress and committees of jurisdiction)

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State and multi-state legislative work (registered in priority jurisdictions)

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Executive-branch and federal-agency engagement

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Strategic policy counsel and political analysis

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Coalition design and stakeholder mobilisation

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Grassroots and grasstops programme architecture

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Congressional testimony preparation and delivery

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Lobbying Disclosure Act and FARA compliance

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Campaign-finance, government-ethics, and gift-rule advice

Representative work

A short list, by way of indication.

  • Lead representation of a multinational financial institution on legislation affecting core operations.
  • Counsel to a coalition of accreditors and universities on federal accreditation reform.
  • Representation of a Fortune 100 technology client on AI-governance legislation and agency rulemaking.
  • Co-ordinated multi-state legislative strategy for an industry coalition on regulatory harmonisation.