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Drawing on long-standing relationships with key policymakers, the McGuireWoods Consulting team helps clients to enact laws, rules, and regulations, which stimulate economic opportunity and make businesses prosper.
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Enlightening and educating tomorrow's leaders is a primary objective for any state, locality, primary or secondary school, or institution of higher learning. McGuireWoods Consulting understands the importance and impact of public policy on education and funding needs. Our team is experienced and well versed in representing a large cross-section of education clients helping them achieve their objectives. Public and private education initiatives are second nature to us, and McGuireWoods Consulting utilizes its bipartisan team to garner executive and legislative support for major initiatives and transformative education projects across the country. If you have an education related issue that requires tactful planning and a comprehensive public affairs strategy, McGuireWoods Consulting has a proven track record to help you achieve your business and public policy goals.
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McGuireWoods Consulting is at the forefront of assisting with policy pertaining to climate change and managing the development in the growing alternative energy sector, including biofuels, wind energy, clean coal, and geothermal projects.
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Today's healthcare market presents a variety of unique challenges across the industry, affecting insurance agencies, pharmaceutical companies, providers and retailers, alike. Increased regulations, oversight and liability make it ever harder for our clients to compete successfully in these sectors and meet their bottom line. McGuireWoods Consulting has an experienced team of professionals that understand the politics and complex nature of the healthcare industry &ndsh; as a public service, and a business.
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An important piece of our portfolio is our expertise with leading-edge technology issues. Our team can help you be at forefront of policy development, procurement and legislation affecting e-commerce and e-government. We routinely assist companies on technology-related legislative issues and agency procurements.

McGuireWoods Consulting is a leader in producing successful cost-savings and modernization projects. Our experience allows us to master the issues that occur regularly in state capitols around the country.
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McGuireWoods Consulting has the knowledge and background to help our clients in the Insurance and Financial Industries achieve their goals. The insurance industry has complex and specialized needs, from government relations and regulatory compliance to public relations, and McGuireWoods Consulting can put together the right team with the right skills to meet whatever challenges your company faces. We have experience representing companies in the business of all kinds of risk management, from healthcare and workers compensation to property and casualty insurance.

The financial services sector is one of McGuireWoods Consulting's fastest-growing service areas. Whether partnered with McGuireWoods LLP's financial services legal specialists or not, our consultants can help companies in the financial services industry with their legislative and executive branch lobbying efforts, to navigate regulatory agencies and the accompanying red tape, with various levels of business expansion services, or to resolve public relations issues. We have experience dealing with many different niches of the vast financial services sector, including the real property/mortgage industry and other types of credit industries.
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Land use decisions are increasingly driven by growth and environmental concerns as communities grapple with the benefits and strains of development. Local governments are tasked with balancing the benefit of revenues generated by growth with the increasing burden of providing the public services and infrastructure to support it.

Business plays a large role in strengthening a growing community - from job creation to cultivating a residential and commercial tax base. Though, all too often business finds itself in the crosshairs of opposing forces. Whether it's a developer's proposal or a utility's plans to support it, the emergence of sophisticated organized opposition to new development increasingly calls for grassroots and grasstops mobilization, public relations, and government relations support to achieve success. McGuireWoods Consulting has assembled a cross-disciplinary team to assist clients with all aspects of real estate development projects.
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Local government often has unique and complicated business needs related to infrastructure, regulations, legislation, and grant programs that our team can help simplify. We understand the regulatory and legislative processes and can be your advocates at the state level.

Whether you are looking for assistance in modernizing your infrastructure or developing legislative strategies, McGuireWoods Consulting is poised to help local governments in any of your dealings with state government.
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McGuireWoods Consulting has broad experience looking out for clients in manufacturing industries. We understand the complex set of issues that manufacturing companies face, and how they are affected by players at every level of the federal government. From a trade policy of global impact, to rulemakings to the effect a single federal inspector can have at the plant level, McGuireWoods Consulting understands what our manufacturing clients need on policy issues and how to get it done.
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McGuireWoods Consulting represents clients who need services and access to the public safety community. We also assist clients in public safety matters regarding securing special projects, procurements, regulatory actions, and public-private partnerships.

Our public safety team works directly with members of the public safety community. Team members include former senior level policy advisors to Governors and members of executive and legislative branch offices.

Our public safety team has established professional relationships, outstanding contacts, and many resources within the public safety community. We have excellent partnerships with several public safety groups including fire, law enforcement, and emergency management agencies and associations.
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Successful companies need transportation access for customers, employees, and products. McGuireWoods Consulting works at the local, state, and federal level to secure funding—often through innovative means. With extensive experience in the planning and design process, we can secure approval of special projects required to meet each client’s specific needs.
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