Our lawyers have years of experience and insights based on prior employment in the executive and legislative branches of state and federal government. DLA Piper boasts two former House Majority Leaders, the former Governor of Michigan and former counsel for the chair of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. This profound knowledge and familiarity with the inner workings of government can be particularly critical in obtaining the passage of favorable legislation or rulemakings on behalf of our clients.

We have experience in the following matters:

• Representing the Government of Alberta before Congress regarding US importation of petroleum from oil sands
• Testifying regarding legislative and regulatory reform for the weather-related derivatives market
• Advising on legislative work before the US Senate and House of Representatives on behalf of an oil company regarding restrictions on foreign oil
• Organizing the watershed 1986 Senate hearings on climate change as former counsel for the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, and actively participating in the political and policy process leading to US support for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Drafting comments and assisting organizations responding to a rulemaking proposal to regulate carbon dioxide
• Drafting state legislation permitting funding of a carbon capture and storage project and developing a regulatory strategy on behalf of an electric utility client