Public Affairs

Businesses and institutions have two alternatives when it comes to public affairs. 

They can actively determine their fates, advance their agendas, and seek to persuade lawmakers and regulators – thereby engaging the public at whose pleasure political decision-makers serve. 

Or they can cross their fingers and hope that new legislation or regulatory decisions made by national and local policy-makers favor their interests.  

For sophisticated businesses leaders, the better choice is clear.

Levick’s Public Affairs practice experts bring first-hand knowledge and experience to bear on the legislative and regulatory landscape. We have extensive relationships with lobby and government relations firms in Washington, D.C. and all state capitals. We drive solutions to assure that tomorrow’s decisions advance your business interests and objectives.

Grassroots Advocacy

Public officials, elected or appointed, answer to increasingly diverse constituencies inside the Beltway and also at the grassroots level. At a time when the Internet and social media mean new activist challenges, it’s become imperative that businesses and organizations interact with and respond to all stakeholders with a clear, consistent, and resolute voice. 

Sometimes it’s about showing elected leaders that their constituents are engaged and watching attentively, often as participants in grassroots campaigns to directly compel their attention and persuade their decisions. 

Sometimes it’s about preparing clients to survive the political hot seat during public hearings.

Sometimes it’s about deploying influential third-party allies to support your positions and generate groundswells of favorable opinion on a myriad of issues. 

We focus on your most pressing objectives, craft the smartest strategy to achieve them, and implement multiple actions to deliver winning results.  

Inside Track 

Our counselors have worked in the White House. They’re savvy former Congressional staffers from both sides of the aisle. They’re cabinet department veterans and regulatory agency alumni. They’re digital media experts who know how to leverage the Internet as a venue of first and last resort to disseminate client messages and fortify client positions.

Read the headlines and blogs. Watch and listen to the broadcast media coverage. Track the digital networks. On any given day, effective communications transform climates of opinion. Laws pass or don’t pass – and your business is changed forever as a result.