Holland & Hart LLP

Holland & Hart attorneys and government affairs professionals assist our clients by actively engaging elected and appointed leaders in the executive and legislative arenas at both the federal and state levels. As a firm centered in the Mountain West, and supported by our office in Washington, D.C., Holland & Hart is well positioned to assist clients in a wide range of legislative, regulatory, and cross-disciplinary matters. Our Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Practice Group is a robust team of dedicated professionals, providing sophisticated client service in dealings with state and federal government agencies, as well as elected officials.

Our professionals have worked for both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill and have served in various presidential administrations. They also have worked as appointed officials in state agencies and have been actively engaged in political campaigns at all levels of government. Members of our group have proven records of success as public servants and bring to the practice highly refined advocacy and legal experience. This combination of substantive legal experience and an intricate knowledge of the legislative and administrative processes makes our team well-qualified to help clients assess, develop, and meet their objectives before state and federal government agencies.

Examples of our legislative and regulatory affairs work include the following:

• Develop comprehensive legislative and public relations strategies including community outreach efforts;
• Monitor legislative developments and report on areas of interest to clients;
• Draft legislation and testimony as well as issue and position papers;
• Testify before legislative committees;
• Provide agencies with important legal and technical support for regulations, guidance documents, permitting actions, or other administrative decisions;
• Coordinate between key legislative personnel and executive branch officials on cross-disciplinary legal and policy issues;
• Establish and coordinate ad hoc coalitions comprised of members representing diverse interest groups;
• Arrange meetings with members of Congress, state legislators, and city and county officials as well as with key legislative staff; and
• Actively participate in various trade associations to stay on the cutting edge of our clients' legislative and regulatory issues.

Our Team-Based Approach
The attorneys and professionals comprising the Holland & Hart Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Practice Group are located throughout the firm's offices: Washington, D.C.; the state capitols of Boise, Carson City, Cheyenne, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Santa Fe; and the key western cities of Billings, Jackson, Reno, and Las Vegas. Our team works in highly focused areas such as environmental, public lands, natural resources, energy, electricity, water, telecommunications, Indian law, and real estate law. We also work closely with the firm's litigators and business lawyers to provide comprehensive, cross-disciplinary solutions to our clients' complex legal concerns.

Holland & Hart's Statement of Commitment to Diversity
We are proud of our tradition of fostering and maintaining a work environment in which the diversity of each individual is valued and celebrated. We believe that the contributions of each individual are essential to our continued growth and to our ultimate goal of providing excellent quality legal services to our clients, with greater creativity and innovation. We are committed to taking full advantage of the rich backgrounds and abilities of our people and to promoting a greater diversity whenever and wherever possible.

Diversity Pledge
Holland & Hart is committed to promoting diversity by:

• Making every possible effort to recruit, hire, retain, and promote diverse persons at all levels of employment.
• Promoting greater sensitivity to the value of racial, ethnic and other forms of diversity, through diversity and sensitivity coaching or training for law firm members.
• Inviting to partnership diverse attorneys who meet the requisite criteria.

Diversity Initiatives
The following are additional examples of our commitment and efforts toward supporting and achieving diversity:

• We make a conscious effort to ensure that women and diverse attorneys are included as voting members of our committees of importance within the firm.
• We work closely with law school deans and placement directors in an effort to identify women and diverse law students who are interested in working at Holland & Hart.
• Holland & Hart offers medical and other benefits to partners of gay and lesbian employees on the same terms as it does to spouses of employees.
• We created an Indian Law Practice Group and actively recruited Native American law students and lateral hires.
• Each year we contribute to such scholarship funds as the Colorado Native American Indian Scholarship Fund, the Sam Cary Scholarship Endowment Fund, the Colorado Asian American Bar Scholarship Fund, the Colorado Hispanic Bar Scholarship Fund, and the Colorado Women's Bar Association Scholarship Fund.
• In partnership with the University of Idaho School of Law, we sponsor a "Law by Day, Jazz by Night" each year for undergraduate minority students who have an interest in law.
• We took a leadership role in organizing and supporting the Colorado Pledge Group's Minority First Year Law Student Summer Clerk Program. Through this program, law firms agreed to add at least one diverse first year law student to their summer clerk program.
• We were involved in the creation of the Cross-Professional Business Networking Group, where diverse attorneys in our community can meet and network with non-attorney professionals of color. We view this as a way to help diverse attorneys increase their business development possibilities.

For more information regarding Holland & Hart's commitment to diversity, please contact Peter Houtsma at (303) 295-8259.