Overview
Wiener Associates was founded in 1989 as a full-service,
bipartisan, governmental affairs law firm. With more
than seven decades of experience in government, politics,
and public advocacy, we have grown to an aggressive
mid-sized firm representing more than 30 diverse clients.
Our lobbying activities run the gamut of issues discussed
in local, state and federal government including: economic
development, education, health, human services, transportation,
housing, telecommunications and taxation.
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Prioritizing
Your Needs
We believe that it is important for each of our clients
to have a clear, written, and mutually agreed upon statement of the
governmental objectives the client wants to accomplish. One of our
first tasks is to meet with our clients and develop a set of written
governmental affairs priorities. This guides our activities and alerts
our entire staff to issues which we need to pay primary attention
to for our clients.
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If It Happens In Lansing,
We Are There
Wiener Associates monitors legislative hearings and sessions,
tracks legislation and provides immediate feedback to our clients.
While our firm utilizes state-of-the-art electronic and subscription
tracking services, we find that there is no substitute for being
there. Our lobbyists are involved in a number of work groups that
develop legislation before it is introduced. We also attend all of
the committee meetings that may be relevant to our clients and monitor
each legislative session in full.
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Providing Access To
Decision Makers
Our firm is active in hands-on lobbying for and with
our clients. This includes one-on-one meetings with members of the
Executive Branch, Legislators, and staff. This may also include testifying
before committees or working with our clients to develop testimony
for presentation. We maintain access with key decision makers on
your behalf.
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Customized Representation
Wiener Associates also provides periodic detailed reporting
to our clients. We do not take a one-size fits all approach to this.
Our staff is experienced at presenting before boards and at public
meetings. We provide detailed written reports on a schedule desired
by the client and also accommodate telephone, fax, or email briefings
for single or multiple parties. We tailor our approach to meet the
needs of our clients.
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Knowledge. Experience.
Access.
While lobbyists are best known as process facilitators,
we try to absorb the substance of our clients’ issues so that
we can talk knowledgeably with decision makers in the absence of
our clients when needed. We have found, since term limits have been
put in place, that substantive knowledge plays a greater role with
the newer members than it did in the past. Therefore, our firm provides
both substantive knowledge and access.
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Services
Wiener Associates is a full-service governmental affairs
law firm providing the following services:
- Legislative lobbying on both substantive legislative and appropriations
measures.
- Grassroots advocacy, organization, and coalition formation.
- Monitoring and reporting — state legislative, administrative,
and regulatory activities and advising our clients of the impact
of these activities on their interests.
- Monitoring and reporting — federal legislative, administrative
and regulatory activities, and advising clients of the impact of
these activities on them.
- Strategic planning and prioritizing your issues
— consulting with clients on governmental affairs.
- Crafting legislation — drafting proposed legislation and
administrative rules, reports, recommendations, and testimony.
- Administrative law representation — preparing regulatory
filings, including certificates of need and licensure applications.
- Public speaking — increasing your visibility to your constituency.
Representing clients as needed before administrative bodies.
- Keeping you informed — making presentations to the boards
and staff of our clients so that the client may make informed choices
on governmental affairs priorities.
- Election analysis and impact of expected outcomes
— advising clients as to the impact of possible election outcomes
on the governmental affairs agenda of our clients.
- Campaign finance compliance — preparing documents required
by state law to keep our clients in compliance with both the Lobby
Disclosure Act and the Michigan Campaign Financing Act.
- Non-profit tax-exempt compliance.
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Ethics —
The Highest Standard
Wiener Associates adheres to the State Bar of Michigan
standards regarding conflict of interest and resolution of potential
conflict of interest — the highest ethical standard of any
governmental affairs consulting firm. By contract, we do not take
a client whose interests are in direct conflict with any other client.
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