Governmental Law
The majority of laws governing businesses today are not made in Washington, D.C., but rather in the fifty state capitals and in county administration buildings and city halls all across the country. The Governmental Law Practice Group helps both corporate and government clients navigate a wide range of legal and public policy matters, including litigation and administrative appeals; land use and zoning; telecommunications; health care and insurance regulation; government procurement and contracting; licensing and permitting; legislative strategy; regulatory rulemaking; open records; state and local taxation; and government ethics and political campaign finance law. The Practice Group has represented clients in some of the most critical public policy debates affecting business and government today and is widely recognized for its expertise.
The Practice Group's membership is comprised of many former senior public officials with extensive contacts at all levels of government and includes a former Georgia Court of Appeals Judge; Attorney General of Virginia; Member of Congress; executive counsel and two chiefs of staff to Georgia governors; President Pro Tempore and Majority Leader of the Georgia State Senate; Solicitor General of Virginia; Georgia State Revenue Commissioner; Georgia Chief Administrative Law Judge; Georgia Deputy Insurance Commissioner; numerous deputy and assistant attorneys general in both Virginia and Georgia; senior planning staff member of the Atlanta Regional Commission; and former members of such state and local governing authorities as the Georgia World Congress Center Authority and the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA).
This experience allows the Governmental Law Practice Group to represent clients successfully in a wide spectrum of government matters:
Troutman Sanders is the Georgia member of the State Capital Group, which is a seamless global network of more than 140 preeminent independent law firms. Go to www.statecapitalgroup.org for more information. Member firms practice independently and are not in a relationship for the joint practice of law.