Government Affairs

Foster, Graham, Milstein, Miller & Calisher, LLP offers the services of specialists in election law, lobbying and political consulting. The practice reflects the changing needs of our clients in public policy development, lobbying, media advocacy, land use and zoning.

They provide comprehensive strategy and counsel for issue, bond and mill-levy campaigns. They also provide lobbying services at the local, state and federal level. In addition, they provide counsel and strategy to individual candidates.

Their advocacy includes:

• Legislative lobbying by enabling, defeating or modifying legislation pending at the state, county or local level of government;
• Coalition building to create strategic alliances among diverse entities with common interest in the outcome of a single issue;
• Grassroots campaigns to unite constituency groups and implement mass communications to pressure elected representatives; and
• Press Advocacy to keep the media informed of relevant issue points and to communicate the client's concerns through a targeted strategy.

FGMC knows that the practice of law includes evaluating and understanding the impact of not only existing laws and regulations - but proposed legislation and policy considerations as well. FGMC assists its clients in identifying local and state measures impacting their interests, representing clients before governmental and regulatory bodies in the deliberative process, building relationships with key decision-makers, and developing legislative strategies.

FGMC also coordinates the efforts of its government affairs and litigation counsel to assist clients aggrieved by wrongful governmental action and the pursuit of constitutional and statutory challenges to arbitrary or unconstitutional governmental measures.