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Our lawyers have built credibility and strong relationships with key decision-makers on both the state and local levels that help us to effectively advocate our clients’ interests. Our advocacy is tailored to the specific needs of corporations, trade associations, and individuals. We offer hands-on representation before the Ohio General Assembly, Ohio administrative agencies, and county and local governmental entities.

Our attorneys and other professionals have decades of state, county, and municipal government experience. We regularly assist clients by providing legislative research, drafting proposed bills and amendments, facilitating meetings with legislators and other significant decision makers, preparing testimony, analyzing pending legislation, and monitoring legislative and local activities to ensure that our clients keep abreast of developments and have the opportunity to respond to those developments.

Our recent representations include the following matters:

• We provided strategic legislative counsel, including expert witness testimony and lobbying, to assist clients in the successful enactment of the first asbestos and silica tort reform legislation in the country

• We successfully represented Bob Evans Farms, Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, and Worthington Industries in pursuing favorable tax reform legislation

• On behalf of major United States ISPs, we drafted and successfully lobbied for Ohio’s first civil and criminal SPAM statutes

• Our lawyers drafted and provided expert testimony related to expanding Ohio’s Community Improvement Corporation law to assist with economic development in Ohio