State & Local

Most companies share a number of interests with state and local governments: job creation, economic development, revenue growth, and forward-thinking management of natural resources and infrastructure. Our government relations attorneys and professionals draw on our extensive, broad-ranging industry, regulatory, and legislative experience and networks to help clients, government agencies, and officials find common ground.

Alabama

The Alabama contingent of Jones Walker's Government Relations Practice Group represents a variety of businesses and industry trade associations in pursuing their legislative and public policy goals. In recent years, members of the Alabama practice have been active participants in comprehensive reforms of Alabama's campaign finance and ethics laws and have represented business interests on a variety of measures involving insurance, workmans compensation, and liability issues. In addition, the group has worked toward tort reform and revise other aspects of government reform in representation of business interests throughout Alabama. The team offers clients significant government relations experience, including legislative affairs, with an emphasis on the areas of government regulation, economic development, tax matters, and tort reform issues.

Members of our team have extensive experience in legislative procedures and state government. Our team includes attorneys who are former government officials who served in state administration, and who served as committee chairs and gubernatorial candidates. Our Alabama attorneys work closely with team members in Washington, D.C. to effectively further our clients' interests in legislative matters dealing with insurance, energy and commerce, banking and securities, defense, the environment, maritime industry, healthcare, trade, tariffs, and federal taxation.

In Alabama, we assist clients by planning and implementing strategies to effectively manage the legislation, regulation, and appropriations that govern businesses at the state level. Our services include monitoring Alabama legislative and executive branch activities, lobbying, assisting in public procurement contracts, participating in regulatory agency administrative proceedings, and obtaining various licenses and permits. With regard to regulatory matters, we represent clients in the areas of banking and finance, economic development incentives, natural resources, taxation, public procurement, gaming and ethics compliance.

Florida

The Florida arm of Jones Walker’s Government Relations Practice Group offers clients from across Florida and the United States a central point of access to the state’s legislative, judicial, and executive branches. We regularly advise corporations, individual investors, trade associations, and other members of the business community on the development of legislation and regulatory policy.

In addition to providing strategic, industry-focused economic development counsel, we offer a range of strategic, public relations, and crisis communications consulting services.

Our Florida team of attorneys and consultants include professionals who are former members of the Florida Legislature and legislative staff; who have served in state administration, with deep roots in state government; and who have worked closely with colleagues from other states on a range of national initiatives and with elected and appointed officials at almost every level of government.

By knowing what levers to pull and when to pull them, we further our clients’ interests in legislative matters dealing with public procurement, obtaining licenses and permits, local government preemptions, and economic development across key economic drivers affecting manufacturing, energy, commerce, banking and securities, the environment, maritime industry, healthcare, trade, tariffs, and taxation.

In Florida, we assist our clients by planning and implementing strategies to effectively manage the legislation, regulation, and appropriations that govern businesses at the state level.

Louisiana

The Louisiana arm of Jones Walker's Government Relations Practice Group represents a variety of businesses and industry trade associations in pursuing their legislative and public policy goals. In recent years, virtually every aspect of commercial activity has been affected by legislative and regulatory activity, both at the state and federal levels, prompting the need for businesses to become more active in the legislative process. We offer clients significant government relations experience, including legislative affairs, with an emphasis on the areas of insurance regulation, economic development, tax matters, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare issues.

Members of our team have extensive experience in legislative procedures and state government. Our team includes attorneys who are former members of the Louisiana Legislature, who served in state administration, and who served as committee chairs and gubernatorial floor leaders during their tenure. Our Louisiana attorneys work closely with team members in Washington, D.C. to effectively further our clients' interests in legislative matters dealing with insurance, energy and commerce, banking and securities, defense, the environment, maritime industry, healthcare, trade, tariffs, and federal taxation.

In Louisiana, we assist clients by planning and implementing strategies to effectively manage the legislation, regulation, and appropriations that govern businesses at the state level. Our services include monitoring Louisiana legislative and executive branch activities, lobbying, assisting in public procurement contracts, participating in regulatory agency administrative proceedings, and obtaining various licenses and permits. With regard to regulatory matters, we represent clients in the areas of healthcare, insurance, environmental law, economic development incentives, natural resources, taxation, trucking, public procurement, and ethics compliance.

Mississippi

The Mississippi arm of Jones Walker's Government Relations Practice Group represents a variety of businesses and industry trade associations in pursuing their legislative and public policy goals. In recent years, virtually every aspect of commercial activity has been affected by legislative and regulatory activity, both at the state and federal levels, prompting the need for businesses to become more active in the legislative process. We offer clients significant government relations experience, including legislative affairs, with an emphasis on the areas of insurance regulation, financial institutions, education, economic development, tax matters, telecommunications, and healthcare issues.

Members of our team have extensive experience in legislative procedures and state government.  Our Mississippi attorneys work closely with our team members in Washington, D.C. to effectively further our clients' interests in legislative matters dealing with insurance, energy and commerce, banking and securities, defense, the environment, maritime industry, healthcare, trade, tariffs, and federal taxation.

In Mississippi, we assist clients by planning and implementing strategies to effectively manage the legislation, regulation, and appropriations that govern businesses at the state level. Our services include monitoring Mississippi legislative and executive branch activities, lobbying, assisting in public procurement contracts, participating in regulatory agency administrative proceedings, and obtaining various licenses and permits. With regard to regulatory matters, we represent clients in the areas of healthcare, insurance, environmental law, economic development incentives, natural resources, taxation, public procurement, and campaign finance and ethics compliance.