Administrative Hearings and Licensing

Our attorneys and government policy team work with members of Congress on policy rulemaking with your voice and interest in mind. When a bill or change is adopted, we can advise you on how those changes impact you so you can plan. We can assist you with:

• Advising clients on compliance with agency rules, regulations, and policies.
• Representing clients in the rulemaking process, including drafting and commenting on rules, regulations, guidelines, and policy statements.
• Preparing requests for advisory opinions, declaratory rulings, or other agency interpretations.
• Reviewing final agency rules for possible judicial challenge.
• Litigating challenges to agency rules.
• Representing clients in agency adjudications.
• Preparing applications for licenses and permits.
• Preparing FOIA requests.
• Preparing requests for confidential agency treatment of client information under FOIA.
• Litigating FOIA and Open Meeting Act disputes.
• Participating in development of mandatory and voluntary standards.
• Responding to agency investigations and audits.
• Negotiating consent decrees.
• Participating in industry coalitions to address specific agency issues.
• Representing clients before Congress and state legislatures on agency reauthorization, agency oversight, and specific agency-related issues pending before legislative committees.