Political and Governmental Law

Government Law Attorneys

With offices in Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and Reno, Parsons Behle & Latimer's governmental practice is among the strongest in the region. Our practice encompasses administrative and regulatory law. We represent clients before regulatory agencies on environmental, telecommunications, power, natural resources and land use issues.

Lawyers in this group, many of whom have significant campaign and election law experience, counsel clients about the basics of the political process to the complexities of election law.

Election Law

In addition to federal campaign contribution advice, lawyers in our Political/Governmental Law Group 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.

Our election attorneys routinely advise clients on compliance with laws regulating lobbying and media relations as well.

Attorneys focused on this area:

• Dryer, Randy L.
• Bailey, J. Michael
• Goodenow, Rew R.

Government Relations

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 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 resource, energy, public lands, water law and a myriad of other areas to provide a team well-versed in the substantive areas of law and governmental process.

Together, our government relations lawyers and lobbyists 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 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
• Bradshaw, Kate A., lobbyist

Regulatory Law

• 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

Attorneys focused on this area:

• Reeder, F. Robert
• Jensen, Dallin W.
• Bailey, J. Michael
• Evans, William J.
• Stilling, William J.
• Baldwin, Vicki M.