LEGISLATIVE & EXECUTIVE LOBBYING ATTORNEYS
Businesses and professionals do not need to simply accept new laws, rules, and regulations; not when our experienced attorneys are here to help our clients change them.
Accomplished advocacy — representing clients in need of proposing, amending, and (where necessary) defeating legislation and regulations — is a special strength of our firm. Our lawyers regularly appear before all levels and branches of government; including municipal and county governments, regional and district boards, state agencies, as well as the Cabinet, Supreme Court, Legislature, and Office of the Governor.
EXPERIENCE THAT MATTERS
Our extensive experience in both government and politics gives our firm its strategic edge. Timothy J. Meenan served as Deputy Treasurer for the State of Florida. Other firm attorneys have served in various state agency positions, or work with private and government clients regularly.
This in-depth familiarity with the inner workings of the executive and legislative processes and first-hand understanding of budget, tax, and fiscal policies gives us keen insight into how legislative and executive actions affect our clients’ interests. Our law office maintains an active presence before the Florida State Legislature and several Florida State executive agencies, which we use to represent those interests vigorously.
LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATION
As part of our legislative representation, Meenan P.A. has (among other activities):
- Drafted bills, amendments, rules, and regulations
- Provided testimony and briefs at hearings and committee meetings
- Designed effective communications targeted to specific officials
- Built alliances and coalitions to promote individual legislative goals
- Lobbied for and against legislation
- Developed lobbying strategies for our clients
LOBBYING STRATEGIES
Meenan P.A. has developed proven effective lobbying strategies across every traditional form of lobbying, including:
- Grassroots campaigns designed to mobilize a large number of individual constituents.
- Grasstops campaigns designed to involve and utilize a small number of highly influential community leaders, recognized names, and socially well-connected individuals.
- Direct campaigns designed to hand relevant information directly to the decision-makers who will be helping to decide the issue at hand.
- Positioning campaigns designed to provoke news and other media outlets to create one or more stories that inform all three of the above groups.
This hands-on involvement gives us the opportunity to offer our clients full access representation throughout Florida’s governmental system. Whether it is through amending statutes via the Florida Legislature or amending rules with local and state governmental agencies, our firm stands ready to help your business craft a governmental relations strategy to suit your specific needs.
