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Practice Leader: Brian E. Finch

As part of Dickstein Shapiro’s full-service representation in Washington, DC, it has provided an increasing number of clients with assistance in the area of homeland security. The firm has developed a homeland security team to provide clients with guidance in navigating these complex issues, particularly in the legislative and regulatory affairs, immigration, and government contracts areas. The firm provides legislative, contractual, administrative, and regulatory assistance for any company dealing with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This assistance demands significant political resources and the ability to manage the new set of challenges and opportunities presented by the Homeland Security Act.

Dickstein Shapiro’s past and present work on homeland security matters includes assisting companies in the following highly visible areas:

• cleanup of anthrax in Senate and postal offices;
• government attempts to isolate biological contaminants in mail and other packages;
• securing and monitoring the water supply at reservoirs and distribution areas;
• nuclear electric industry’s response to possible terrorist attacks;
• insuring that sufficient funds are appropriated and authorized for homeland security efforts;
• pandemic flu and agroterrorism issues;
• mass casualty preparedness;
• interoperable communications;
• oversight of non-citizen flight school students;
• obtaining liability protections under the SAFETY Act; and
• creating and improving relationships with the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of State, Department of Agriculture, and General Services Administration.

The firm’s team of attorneys, lobbyists, and advisors has the necessary skills and experience required to provide expert counsel in today’s highly competitive and regulated government marketplace to large and small, domestic and international companies, in both defense and civilian arenas. Dickstein Shapiro attorneys and advisors bring a collective experience that comes from years of highly diverse public service and include two former U.S. Senators, two former members of the House of Representatives — including Speaker J. Dennis Hastert — and others who held senior-level positions at the White House in Cabinet departments, on Congressional staffs, and in elected state offices. Together, they have relationships that reach the highest and broadest levels of government.

Dickstein Shapiro’s homeland security attorneys bring together the range of professional capabilities required for:

• all aspects of federal, state, and local government procurements;
• counseling and dispute resolution in all procurement phases before all relevant administrative and legal forums;
• guidance in regulatory and administrative proceedings before a collection of federal departments and agencies;
• all aspects of federal immigration law;
• counseling and dispute resolution in DHS workplace and employer audits concerning the employment verification system for non-citizen staff;
• communication with or on behalf of state governments and elected officials, with whom Dickstein Shapiro maintains uniquely close relations nationwide;
• assisting with obtaining liability protection under the SAFETY Act for anti-terror products and services; and
• litigation, if necessary, with the assistance of the firm’s nationally prominent trial and appellate practitioners.

Dickstein Shapiro’s team of Public Policy & Law, Government Contracts, and Immigration attorneys is uniquely and comprehensively equipped to address the legal needs and interests of private and public companies with their homeland security initiatives.