Legislative and Policy Advocacy

Our attorneys team with our government relations professionals to offer clients a powerful combination of legal, regulatory, legislative and policy advocacy on communications issues. Recognizing the interplay between Congress, the Administration, and independent regulatory agencies in achieving a client’s overall strategic objectives, our strong government practice – combined with the firm’s communications regulatory experience – enables clients to achieve successful outcomes through the crafting and execution of a comprehensive overall strategy.

Our attorneys team with our government relations professionals to offer clients a powerful combination of legal, regulatory, legislative and policy advocacy on communications issues. Recognizing the interplay between Congress, the Administration, and independent regulatory agencies in achieving a client’s overall strategic objectives, our strong government practice – combined with the firm’s communications regulatory experience – enables clients to achieve successful outcomes through the crafting and execution of a comprehensive overall strategy.

Common elements of such strategies include:

• organization and formation of issue-focused lobbying alliances and coalitions;
  
• drafting legislation, testimony and other documents integral to the legislative process;
  
• developing strategies and testimony for witnesses in Congressional hearings and before the FCC, State Department, United States Trade Representative and the Department of Commerce;
  
• lobbying federal agencies, Congress, the White House, and foreign governments.

This integration of legal, regulatory and lobbying experience makes Williams Mullen especially adept at inter-agency and Congressional coordination especially in matters involving shared or overlapping jurisdiction among the FCC and the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Aviation Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency.