Our Regulatory and Administrative Law attorneys have worked in the highest levels of the executive branch on complex and novel legal issues at the forefront of public discussion. They have been involved in policy setting, rulemaking, and administrative law matters from both sides of the equation, offering clients hands-on, inside knowledge of the federal rulemaking process and experience in successfully challenging federal and state regulations at the administrative level and in federal courts across the country.

Working in the federal government, our attorneys have been involved in the rulemaking process at all stages—including drafting proposed rules, working with stakeholders in the executive branch to guide rules through the notice-and-comment process, providing controlling legal advice to the president and executive branch agencies on constitutional, administrative and regulatory issues, and offering opinions on matters including the limits of executive authority and the separation of powers. Representing the United States, our attorneys have defended executive action before federal judges at the trial and appellate levels.

As litigators, our attorneys have led successful challenges to federal agency action in mandamus actions, appeals of district court orders, and petitions for review before federal appellate courts. They have used the Administrative Procedure Act and the Freedom of Information Act creatively to advance client goals in proceedings before judicial and administrative tribunals. They have written extensively on regulatory and administrative law topics in various national publications and have broad experience in critical positions, including serving as an Attorney-Adviser in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, law clerks to a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, judges on the D.C. Circuit and other federal courts, counsel to a U.S. Senator, and as trial attorneys and special assistants within the Department of Justice.