Attorneys and Attorney - Lobbyists:Bird, David R., Chair Lobbyist:
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With offices in Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and Reno, Parsons Behle & Latimer's governmental law practice is one of the strongest in the region. Our practice encompasses administrative and regulatory law. We represent clients before regulatory agencies on myriad issues including environmental, telecommunications, power, transportation and natural resources.
Lawyers in this group, many of whom have significant campaign and election law experience, also counsel clients about the basics of the political process to the complexities of election law.
Government Relations & Lobbying
Parsons Behle & Latimer not only assists clients in complying with the law, we help shape it.
Government relations attorneys and professionals in the firm provide clients with timely information and a full range of services, as well as an influential voice with legislators and state and local government officials. We are able to do so because our government relations practice is built around a core of attorneys and other professionals who bring their diverse political backgrounds and familiarity with day-to-day legislative processes to bear on their work on behalf of clients. Clients draw upon the expertise of attorneys and professionals in specific practice areas such as tax, environmental, communications, human resources, energy, public lands, water law and myriad other areas to provide a team well-versed in the substantive areas of law and governmental process.
Together, our government relations professionals are adept at building coalitions of individual companies and associations with common interests, monitoring general legislative or regulatory activities and representing the general interests of specific clients before governmental bodies.
Because we take a proactive rather than a reactive approach to government, our clients receive advance notice of legislative and regulatory proposals that may dramatically impact their businesses and are able to communicate their interests to legislators early on in the process.
Attorneys focused on this area:
- Bird, David R.
- Lee, James B.
- Jensen, Dallin W.
- Miller, Maxwell A.
- Bailey, J. Michael
- Stilling, William J.
- Teuscher, Shelly Cordon, lobbyist
Election Law
In addition to federal campaign contribution advice, lawyers in this department advise clients about participating in the state, county and national political process. Specifically, election lawyers counsel corporate executives about compliance issues regarding political activities, corporation campaign contributions and permissible political activity, pursuant to both federal and state law.
In the area of election law, our attorneys represented 37 former members of Congress in the landmark case, McConnell v. FEC, before the United States Supreme Court.
Our election attorneys routinely advise clients on compliance with laws regulating lobbying and media relations as well.
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Regulatory Law
Our regulatory law attorneys represent the Intermountain West's largest mining, manufacturing and commercial entities in federal and state regulatory proceedings involving coal, electricity, natural gas, nuclear materials, petroleum and telecommunications.Domestically we have practiced before the Utah Public Service Commission, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Internationally we have practiced in Africa, Argentina, Chile and Peru.
Specifically we:
- Seek and obtain favorable tariff and rate schedule terms and conditions
- Obtain regulatory approval for customers entering power purchasing market
- Defend against rate increases and obtain rate decreases for industrial and commercial energy customers
- Assist competitive telecommunications providers in obtaining state authority to offer intrastate services
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