Services
Experts in Oregon’s Political Environment
Oregon’s political and regulatory environment presents both opportunities and serious challenges for business. We help businesses and their trade associations to successfully navigate the state’s unique legislative, regulatory and political processes. We help our clients to craft strategies to be successful in a highly matrixed political environment locally known as “the Oregon way,” and both protect our clients’ ability to do business and create opportunities for our clients to grow their businesses. Our strong commitment to integrity and fair play in the process means that our clients can emerge from even the toughest political conflicts with relationships intact.
Services
- Lobbying the Oregon Legislature, Executive Branch and independent agencies on behalf of business and professional interests.
- Coalition development and management.
- Management of public policy focused business associations.
- Communications strategy and message development.
- Specialized account support for companies doing business with state health care programs.
Our Commitment to Clients:
- We will vigorously represent your interests.
- We live up to the highest levels of integrity, well above and beyond what state ethics laws require.
- We’ll provide you with candid assessments of the policy and political environments surrounding your issues.
- We will take the time to become knowledgeable about your business and operations, so that we not only can represent you on issues we’ve already identified together, but also help you to identify business opportunities and to provide you with early warning signs of issues that may affect your business years from now.
- We’ll develop, subject to your approval, briefing papers on your issues suitable for use with policymakers and the media.
Recent Accomplishments
- Leader of business coalition on environmental stewardship issues.
- Led a cross-industry technical workgroup to develop drug pedigree regulations in Oregon and Utah, which protect the integrity of the drug supply chain.
- Instrumental in defeating Oregon legislation that would have severely restricted brand-name pharmaceutical companies’ ability to market their innovative products.
- Helped create the Oregon Patient Safety Commission, which provides a liability “safe harbor” for reporting and analysis of medical errors.