Advocacy
The professionals at Davis & Harman LLP have decades of experience working for and with Congress and executive branch agencies. Our approach is informed by our public service experience; since our founding our professionals have served in senior roles for the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, Senate Finance Committee, House Ways and Means Committee, Joint Committee on Taxation, and House Committee on Education and Workforce. Within our areas of expertise, Davis & Harman’s team approach to legislative representation combines an in-depth knowledge of the tax law, ERISA, and the legislative and regulatory process with a broad range of key relationships that we have established over the years.
We provide federal legislative services for most of our clients, including financial institutions, other large corporations, trade associations, tax-exempt entities, and advocacy organizations. Our firm offers comprehensive legislative and lobbying services to our clients with a particular focus on tax, ERISA/benefits (including retirement and health), insurance, and financial services issues. Since 1985, we have participated in every major regulatory and legislative effort affecting the federal tax law or ERISA, including especially the treatment of retirement plans, health plans, insurance products, and other savings vehicles.
In all areas, we assist clients in developing, advancing and responding to federal legislation and regulatory developments. We monitor legislative developments and alert clients of proposals as they are developed by Members of Congress and within executive branch agencies. In performing these services, we seek to anticipate opportunities and threats of developments on each client’s products, business, and operations.
Davis & Harman LLP provide various advocacy services to clients on issues of particular importance to them, representing them before Congress and relevant executive branch agencies. With deep relationships on both sides of the aisle and across the executive branch agencies:
- We help clients make their case before, and exchange views with, Members of Congress, Congressional committees and agency officials.
- We develop legislative and regulatory proposals that further client’s objectives and help revise existing or pending policy proposals to reflect our client’s interests.
- We initiate and lead coalitions that leverage the support of diverse stakeholders.
- We advance policy proposals with the relevant trade associations and interest groups and work to identify Members of Congress to champion proposals.
- We also assist with the development of advocacy materials, talking points, analyses of proposed or pending proposals, legislative specifications, and drafting statutory language.
Explore our wide range of legal and advocacy services tailored to meet our clients’ objectives.
