The Government Law & Strategy Practice seeks to advance clients’ interests before the legislative and executive branches of government — a practice unique to Washington, DC. Increasingly, this demands a sophisticated combination of political and substantive resources, as well as a close coordination of skills drawn from traditionally separate disciplines, including government representation, regulatory and administrative counseling, and even litigation.
The firm’s Public Policy & Law Practice attorneys are dedicated to providing clients with focused and cost-effective advocacy in the councils of federal and state governments. The practice includes former U.S. Senators, former members of the House of Representatives, and several other former public servants who held senior positions at the White House or elsewhere in the executive branch or who served on congressional staffs or in elected state offices. Together, the Public Policy & Law Practice possesses the wide range of professional and legal capabilities required for effective Washington representation before Congress and the executive branch. The members of the practice serve as counsel in regulatory matters and administrative proceedings before a wide assortment of federal departments and agencies, and intervene before, or on behalf of, state governments and elected officials, with whom Dickstein Shapiro maintains uniquely close relations.
Dickstein Shapiro’s Homeland Security Practice provides clients with guidance in navigating the complex areas of legislative and regulatory affairs, immigration, and government contracts. The firm provides legislative, contractual, administrative, and regulatory assistance for any company dealing with the Department of Homeland Security. This assistance demands significant political resources and the ability to manage the new set of challenges and opportunities presented by the Homeland Security Act. The firm’s team of attorneys, lobbyists, and advisors has the necessary skills and experience required to provide thorough counsel in today’s highly competitive and regulated government marketplace to large and small, domestic and international companies, in both the defense and civilian arenas. Dickstein Shapiro attorneys and advisors have a collective background that comes from years of highly diverse public service, including former U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives, 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 Political Law Practice assists clients in the areas of campaign finance, ethics, lobbying, and election law, offering counseling to ensure clients keep in compliance with current rules and successfully manage situations involving governmental inquiries or investigations. The Political Law Practice attorneys, including several former U.S. Senators and Representatives, draw insights and well-informed perspectives from their diverse experience as attorneys and advisors and from their work with government agencies such as the Federal Election Commission. Members of this practice assess compliance issues and provide up-to-date advice enabling clients to work successfully with government representatives at the federal, state, and local levels.
Dickstein Shapiro helps clients obtain and maintain a competitive edge in government procurements, including the provision of technology to the government. The firm’s government contracts attorneys litigate for clients and guide them through the maze of regulations to maximize their ability to secure government contracts. Dickstein Shapiro has extensive experience in contract negotiation, contract financing, protest actions, claims and appeals, and related regulatory and court litigation.
The Congressional Investigations Practice at Dickstein Shapiro excels in representing individuals and corporations that are involved in potential or ongoing government investigations, with a particular emphasis on congressional investigations. The practice gives clients the strategic advantage of working with skilled former congressional investigators who understand the ramifications of government inquiries, appreciate the nuances of federal investigative processes, and offer creative and proactive solutions. Attorneys in this practice have been involved in some of the most high-profile congressional investigations of the past decade, including: accounting irregularities at Enron; the Ford-Firestone tire recall; Medicare and Medicaid prescription drug reimbursement; the Hewlett-Packard corporate spying scandal; and representing former National Security Advisor Robert C. McFarlane and former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams in connection with the Iran-Contra investigations.