Our services
What sets us apart: deep expertise, deeply integrated into your organization
Big firms follow the same playbook: focus resources and attention on getting clients in the door, then do the bare minimum to retain the client. Big firm structure incentivizes constant focus on business development.
Dunham Law & Policy caps total clients at a number that allows the Principal Attorney to spend almost all of his time on client work, not recruiting new clients. This approach has resulted in long relationships with existing clients:
- 8 years with one clean energy NGO client
- 7 years with a global green chemistry client
- 10 years with a global consumer product company
Agencies write the rules that decide whether a project pencils out. We have analyzed and filed comments on dozens of rules across the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, U.S. Trade Representative, and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Internal federal policy audit: We work with teams across your organization to identify functions that could be affected by federal opportunities and risks.
Analysis: Twenty years of legal experience allows us to offer rigorous analysis of proposed rules and plain language explanations of how the rules could affect your priorities.
Goal setting: We define exactly what success looks like. Product X is excluded from all Section 301 tariffs. Program Y expands eligibility to include product class Y.
Advocacy: Filing comments is not the end of the story. To supercharge your comments, we build comprehensive advocacy campaigns, including building coalitions and recruiting Congressional champions to ensure decisionmakers are hearing the best messages from the best messengers.
Monitoring: Dunham Law & Policy has sophisticated systems for tracking regulatory developments and an ear to the ground on Capitol Hill and at the federal agencies.
At a time when Congress struggles to keep the government open and even naming post offices is controversial, Dunham Law and Policy has delivered impactful bipartisan legislation.
Energy Act of 2020: Authorized a new clean energy program, on behalf of a coalition of more than forty NGOs, labor unions, and companies built and represented since 2018.
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Secured $2.4 billion in appropriations for that same program authorized in the Energy Act of 2020.
Inflation Reduction Act — program funding: Secured $700 million in program funding plus eligibility under the production and investment tax credits.
Inflation Reduction Act — sustainable chemistry: Won sustainable-chemistry eligibility across numerous programs, opening federal incentives to a sector that had been excluded.
CHIPS and Science Act: Passed bipartisan legislation to decarbonize steel production.
Toxic Substances Control Act: Negotiated the first bipartisan bill to reform TSCA — the Principal’s work as Chief Counsel in the Senate, before founding the firm.
For companies without a federal team, we serve as the in-house government affairs function — not an outside vendor reporting in.
Monitoring and early warning on rules, bills, and agency personnel
Direct representation before Congress and the agencies
Briefing business leaders, in-house counsel, and communications teams
Representing your organization in person with your trade associations, coalitions, and other stakeholders
Witness preparation for testimony and the questioning it will draw