Alston & Bird is uniquely positioned to advise clients in a bipartisan manner on public policy matters. Spearheading Alston & Bird’s Legislative & Public Policy Group are four former Congressional leaders; Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS), former U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and former Congressman Billy Tauzin (R, D-LA) and Earl Pomeroy (D-ND).

Senator Dole, the 1996 Republican candidate for president, former Senate Finance Committee Chairman and Senate Majority Leader who served longer in a Senate leadership role (Minority and Majority) than any other Republican in U.S. history, has an enormous reservoir of knowledge and expertise—based on more than 40 years at the pinnacle of political life in Washington—that has proven to be invaluable to Alston

Alston & Bird is uniquely positioned to advise clients in a bipartisan manner on public policy matters. Spearheading Alston & Bird’s Legislative & Public Policy Group are four former Congressional leaders; Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS), former U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and former Congressman Billy Tauzin (R, D-LA) and Earl Pomeroy (D-ND).

Senator Dole, the 1996 Republican candidate for president, former Senate Finance Committee Chairman and Senate Majority Leader who served longer in a Senate leadership role (Minority and Majority) than any other Republican in U.S. history, has an enormous reservoir of knowledge and expertise—based on more than 40 years at the pinnacle of political life in Washington—that has proven to be invaluable to Alston & Bird’s clients, who have turned to him and the firm for representation in our nation’s capital.

Senator Blanche Lincoln advises clients on a wide variety of critical and complex public policy issues facing contemporary business and industry interests throughout the country. During her tenure, Senator Lincoln became the first female chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry in the committee’s 184-year history and, in addition to agriculture, became known for her expertise on financial and energy policy issues.

Former Representatives Earl Pomeroy and Billy Tauzin have decades of experience and records of leadership on a full range of domestic and foreign policy issues. Pomeroy served as a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee and its Trade Subcommittee. Tauzin chaired the House Energy and Commerce Committee and served as Deputy Majority Whip.

Joining Senator Dole in the Legislative and Public Policy Group are Tom Scully, the former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and numerous other former government officials with distinguished records of service at the White House, Department of Justice, Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Securities and Exchange Commission, Internal Revenue Service, Office of Thrift Supervision and Central Intelligence Agency. The group also benefit from the counsel of attorneys who were once senior staff for senators and representatives, as well as key congressional committees.

Also among the members of our group are former officials who currently serve on task forces and commissions on the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for International and Strategic Studies. We also provide advice to foreign governments and to our own government, through such mechanisms as chairing the Pentagon’s International Security Affairs Balkans Working Group.