Director, Legislative Affairs

Duties And Responsibilities

• Leads development of legislative agendas for assigned states.
• Captures, coordinates with subject matter experts from Practices on content, amendments, and passage of legislation.
• Coordinates testimony and may be called upon to testify.
• Led coordination with external groups and lobbyists in support of legislative efforts.
• Provides legislative expertise to other departments where needed and may be asked to give written, PowerPoint and formal public presentations.
• Supports Principals with political insights and tracking and policy campaign management.

Client

• Affords and manages client-related state legislative efforts.
• Develops client workplans and schedules associated project deliverables.
• Prepares and conducts client presentations.
• Reviews and reconciles client data and identifies tax issues to research.
• Responds to client inquiries and requests from state agencies.
• Researches and provides legislative insights, threats, opportunities and trends.

Value

• Plans and directs various aspects of the Firm’s Legislative Affairs Practice.
• Assists in managing the Firm’s relationship with its outside counsel and lobby groups.
• Tracks and monitors tax legislation in various states.
• Drafts and reviews proposed state tax legislation including amendments.
• Interprets laws, rulings, and regulations for the Firm.
• Prepares and reviews state lobby reports as needed.
• Maintains comprehensive database of public policy initiatives and facilitates status update meetings.
• Performs research and advises on state tax legislative matters.
• Writes communications documents some of which are: white papers, testimony, update documents (internal and external), persuasive one pagers, and more.
• Manages complex state and local tax projects.
• Negotiates tax resolutions with state agencies.
• Negotiates tax issues, ideas and policies with elected officials, agencies, thought leaders and their staff members.
• Affords other projects as needed.

Education and Experience

• Juris Doctor Degree (“JD”) from an accredited law school and at least seven years related experience in a similar environment.
• Understanding of State and Local Tax policies and statutes.
• Experience in tax policy, communications and government affairs.
• Specifically, property tax policy experience is required.
• Multi-state property tax experience is strongly preferred.

Computer Skills

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must have intermediate knowledge of Microsoft® Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Internet navigation and research.

Certificates and Licenses

• Valid driver’s license required.
• License to practice law within the United States required.
• Membership to the American Bar Association preferred.
• May be required to register as a lobbyist.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job directly supervises employees in the Legislative Affairs Practice and carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the Firm’s policies and applicable laws.