Practice Areas & Industries: Roetzel & Andress, A Legal Professional Association

Practice/Industry Group Overview

The Public Law attorneys at Roetzel & Andress develop solutions for our clients' immediate legal and government relations' issues at federal, state, and local levels. Our clients include Fortune 200 companies, trade associations, counties, cities, villages, school districts, public utilities, universities, libraries, townships, port authorities, and other governmental entities.

Services Available

Our attorneys help clients establish programs designed to address ongoing participation in the political system and issues they face on a daily basis. This includes representation of the clients' interests before state legislatures and the executive and agency branches of state governments. We work with governments to attract, create, and retain employment opportunities and economic development within their communities.

Roetzel & Andress has the resources of its environmental, labor, tax, securities, real estate, zoning and land use, and litigation practices to efficiently and effectively manage any matter that may arise. With offices strategically located in the Ohio and Florida state capitals and Washington, D.C., our attorneys have extensive political contacts at every level of government and possess first-hand knowledge of the public sector processes. Some of our attorneys are current or former law directors, advisors, registered lobbyists, and mayors. The Public Law group also includes a former executive director and general counsel to a state regulatory department, former members of the Ohio House of Representatives, a current county Commissioner, and Florida board certified attorneys in city, county and local government law.

Representative Services

• Administrative law
• Constitutional issues
• Economic development
• Government relations
• Public finance
• Public policy
• Real estate
• Statutory construction
• Zoning and land use

Representative Matters

• Representation of a major utility company on federal, state, and local matters
• Representation of a major financial institution in Congressional legislation
• Representation on state government affairs matters for:
  • Global research-based pharmaceutical corporation
  • Telecommunications services and products
  • Global automotive company
  • Diversified conglomerate
  • Construction trade association
  • Nonprofit community correction halfway house
  • Statewide architectural / engineering firm
  • Technology procurement corporation
  • Office technology provider
• Establishment and administration of federal, state, and local Political Action Committees (PACs)