Government Relations Services

Brickfield, Burchette , Ritts & Stone, P.C. offers its clients government relations services. On behalf of the firm's cooperative, public power, and industrial clients, we monitor and assist clients in participating in legislative and regulatory developments that may impact their operations on the federal and state levels, with a special emphasis on the current restructuring of electricity markets. We also provide government relations services to a major allied health professional organization on a variety of healthcare-related issues, including clinical laboratory regulation, Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement policies, and medical privacy standards. Other issue areas of legislative expertise include: energy, natural resources, water resources, tax, and appropriations. Specific government relations services include:

• Legislative, regulatory, and executive branch monitoring on the federal and state levels
• Review and analysis of legislation and regulations
• Identification of emerging issues that may impact the firm's clients
• Advocacy before Congress, state legislatures, and federal Agencies
• Advice to clients on legislative and regulatory strategies
• Prepare comments to federal and state Agencies on rulemaking issues impacting the firm's clients

A description or indication of limitation of practice does not mean that any agency or board has certified such lawyer as a specialist or expert in an indicated field of law practice, nor does it mean that such lawyer is necessarily any more expert or competent than any other lawyer.