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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

 It is well versed in Central State and local legislative process and law firm advise clients in matters before the Central and State Governments, Parliamentary Standing Committees, Regulatory Boards across industry sectors and commissions. Law Firm's excellent relationship with our government clients, and our in-depth understanding of government policy helps clients manage government relations better.

The Government Relations and Regulatory Affairs group at Trustman Law Firm offers a broad range of services to those engaged in lobbying, advocacy and regulatory affairs. Law Firm has the expertise to serve in a number of roles, from providing direct, hands-on lobbying to supporting the efforts of other lobbyists on legislation, regulations and administrative policy. Law Firm also provide services in the areas of administrative law and regulatory affairs, and law firm regularly assist clients in the increasingly complex area of compliance with state, federal and local campaign finance and ethics requirements.

Law Firm’s understanding of both the political and legal systems, and law firm’s combined expertise in both, allows it to bridge the gulf that often separates the two and to tailor cost-effective solutions which respond to the needs and capacities of each client. Law Firm can help to construct a government relations component for an organization from the ground up. Law Firm can develop lobbying strategies and solutions on specific issues; and law firm can support clients' own lobbying efforts with the legal analyses and services that can make the difference between success and failure.

Law Firm’s goal is to help all of its clients succeed cost-effectively, whether that entails enhancing the effectiveness of those who already engage in lobbying and advocacy activities, or introducing clients to legislative and regulatory alternatives which complement more traditional legal approaches.

Our Clients

This practice group provides services to professional associations, businesses, trade associations, other nonprofit organizations, local governments, political organizations, and individuals.

Services

• Government Relations Counseling, Lobbying, and Lobbying Support
  • Assist in developing organizational advocacy component
  • Lobby on specific legislative or regulatory proposals 
  • Assist in building coalitions and supplement clients' existing lobbying capability as needed
  • Draft or review draft legislation and amendments; provide legal analyses and explanations, in laypersons' terms, to support lobbying, public education and advocacy efforts
  • Strategize on goals, priorities, and alternatives to achieve goals
  • Advise on campaign finance issues
  • Coordinate lobbying, public relations, business, and other legal efforts
• Administrative Law and Regulatory Affairs
  • Lobby, or assist with lobbying, for or against administrative rules, at state agency and legislative levels
  • Defend against administrative enforcement actions brought by state agencies
  • Handle legal challenges to agency administrative actions
  • Represent clients before the State Ethics Board, the State Elections Board, and counterpart local and federal agencies
  • Manage overall relations with administrative agencies regulating clients
• Litigation and Litigation Support 
  • Represent clients in litigation involving statutory interpretation or legislative authority
  • Handle litigation of agency administrative actions, including challenges to rulemaking, rule interpretation, or enforcement decisions, judicial reviews of state agency actions
  • Manage or assist with litigation involving elections, campaign finance, and ethics requirements
  • Provide litigation assistance in state and federal courts, at all levels, on issues involving legislative or administrative history, intent, or authority 

The Government Contracts Team has substantial experience in counseling and representing clients concerning federal, state, and local procurement law. Law Firm has helped companies of all sizes understand the intricacies of dealing with government procurement. While law firm has handled multi million-dollar transactions and litigation with the India government, Law Firm has also helped small and mid-size companies enter the ever growing India procurement marketplace. Law Firm’s experience includes representing clients in negotiation, counseling, litigation, and other proceedings from local courts to agency boards of contract appeals, the India Government Accounting Office, various federal district courts, the India Court, and the India Court of Appeals.

Law Firm has also acquired substantial experience in assisting client companies that provide—or seek to provide—products and services in these highly sensitive areas. Law Firm helped companies identify and pursue business opportunities with the India government Departments, helped them take advantage of the unique opportunities afforded by India Government, and aided them in developing policies and procedures to ensure compliance with India law. Law Firm’s experience also includes effectively analyzing, developing, negotiating, and, if necessary, litigating claims against the government or other private entity. In addition, law firm’s skills in protecting its client's rights extend to counseling and preparing paradigms to protect their intellectual property and proprietary information.

Comprehensive services

The Law Firm’s Government Contracts Team offers a comprehensive range of legal services and counsel, from contract reviews to representation before Indian government and its courts. Among our services are:

• Contract Formation

Law Firm assist clients with all aspects of the contract development process. Predetermination of the government's rights in the client's intellectual property is the most effective way of avoiding disputes during and after contract performance. Law Firm help clients (and the government) understand the inherent flexibility allowed by government regulations in this area. Law Firm also assist clients to comply with disclosure, representations, and certification requirements, including compliance with labor-related and other socioeconomic programs. Importantly, law firm also assist clients in the careful tailoring of teaming agreements and eventual subcontracts—a necessary skill set given recent developments in government contract law.

• Performance & Administration

Law firm help clients effectively address a variety of contract performance and administration issues ranging from claim identification, analysis, preparation, and presentation to contract interpretation, audit issues, and issues related to intellectual property, cost recovery, and termination of contracts.

• Dispute Resolution And Litigation

When needed, Law Firm represent clients in legal proceedings before courts, agency boards of contract appeals, the forums.

• White Collar Issues

Law Firm contract-related services extend to such related areas as corporate compliance, internal investigations, defense of whistle-blower claims, and suspension and debarment. Understanding the intricacies of the Indian statutes and how they can help clients sell to the government expeditiously and with limited risk is essential. Under Indian law, law firm help clients identify business opportunities and comply with the requirements of this new environment to grow businesses while decreasing their risk exposure. Law Firm’s broad-based experience in government contracts as well as in labor, employment, insurance, and indemnification law enables us to assist clients in reaching their goals while simultaneously helping meet the government's defense and homeland security needs.

Beyond the contract

Government contracts can have a significant impact on a client's business, either short- or long-term. Law Firm’s Government Contracts Team has the experience to help you see beyond the purely legal aspects of a contract so you'll understand the sometimes complex issues that are unique to contracting with the government-issues that may help or hinder your business in the years ahead. Contracting with government at any level can be an excellent source of business, provided that companies clearly understand the risks and responsibilities it entails. Law Firm therefore work closely with clients to help them understand the challenges, obligations, and opportunities that government contracts bring.

Monitoring the change

The need for a strong government relations capability is critical in this climate. Law Firm’s attorneys have spent time garnering a strong contact network and knowledge of how the legislative and regulatory process works. This experience enables law firm to provide skillful legislative and regulatory analysis, as well as political forecasting of new directions in policymaking on a broad range of topics.

Law firm provides substantive analyses and input

Law Firm’s attorneys has worked in the regulatory agencies, and in the corporate world. Law Firm’s clients turn to it for its in-depth understanding of the issues, Law Firm’s contacts, and — most important — law firm’s understanding of the process.  Trustman has the team and the seriousness of purpose to handle the issues facing policymakers at all levels of government. Law firm work with our clients to understand their individual needs, an understanding of policymakers’ thinking on a specific issue, or simply a monitoring capability to stay informed of developments in the process.

Broad resources in a single firm

Trustman is a national law firm comprising attorneys, consultant and other professionals in a wide variety of practice groups and specialties. Unlike most law firms, it has a highly integrated organizational structure and state-of-the art resources. This gives every client access to the entire range of services the firm offers. Members of our Government Contracts Team can readily draw on the unique experience of their colleagues in many related areas of law, from tax and employment to intellectual property and environmental law. This not only enables us to easily assist clients in matters that reach into other areas of law, but also lets clients address a broad range of legal needs through a single firm.