Experience

Formal Advice:  With increasingly complex political rules, evolving practices and technologies, new judicial interpretations, and changes in agency leadership, it can be challenging to predict exactly how an agency might apply its rules to a novel situation. Most ethics agencies accept formal requests for the agency to explain how it would apply its rules to a planned activity. Nielsen Merksamer’s attorneys have submitted hundreds of such letters, meticulously analyzing the planned activity in light of the letter and purpose of the applicable rules, judicial precedent, agency past practice, and good policy.

Formal Advice:  With increasingly complex political rules, evolving practices and technologies, new judicial interpretations, and changes in agency leadership, it can be challenging to predict exactly how an agency might apply its rules to a novel situation. Most ethics agencies accept formal requests for the agency to explain how it would apply its rules to a planned activity.

    • Nielsen Merksamer’s attorneys have submitted hundreds of such letters, meticulously analyzing the planned activity in light of the letter and purpose of the applicable rules, judicial precedent, agency past practice, and good policy.