• Low interest loan programs
• Tax credits for investment or job creation
• The Governor’s Guaranteed Workforce Training Program
• Property tax reductions for manufacturing property
• Foreign Trade Zone participation

• Monitoring and commenting on the application of laws, rules and regulations affecting commerce, including environmental, workers’ compensation and tax
• Negotiating property development details
• Assisting clients in obtaining permits, certificates and other types of authority
• Negotiating citations, fines and penalties
• Forming industry think-tanks such as Energy Village, Inc. and Polymer Alliance Zone, Inc. (These nonprofit entities have been established by the firm to promote the progression of the energy and polymer industries in West Virginia).

• Business structure, strategy and planning
• Cost accounting issues, including counseling on Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) cost and pricing compliance issues; cost principles; and Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) audits
• Complex bid and proposal activities, including pre-RFP strategic positioning, responses, and compliance with bidding regulations with federal agencies, West Virginia state agencies, and other state agencies
• Contract negotiations, bid protests, claims and disputes, including defense of challenging contract awards before administrative and judicial tribunals
• Foreign sales and procurement, including activities subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR); Export Administration Regulations (EAR); and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
• Intellectual property and data rights protection
• Labor and employment law
• Mergers and acquisitions, including acquisitions of United States Department of Defense (USDOD) contractors by foreign companies
• Real estate and General Services Administration (GSA) leasing
• Regulatory, contract and transactional compliance
• State and local taxation compliance
• Security clearance matters, including facility clearances; personnel clearances; foreign ownership, control or influence (FOCI) issues; and Defense Security Service (DSS) engagement
• Subcontracting, joint ventures and strategic alliances

• Evaluating client-specific issues and needs  
• Drafting and facilitating the introduction of legislation  
• Analyzing legislation and counseling clients of potential impact
• Advocating, opposing, monitoring and amending legislation
• Drafting and providing testimony on legislation

• Facilitating government support of business and industrial locations and expansions
• Aiding client in applications for grants and low interest loans
• Assisting clients with obtaining approvals, authority, consents, licenses, permits, rights and waivers
• Representing clients before administrative bodies
• Drafting and promoting administrative rules and regulations

Legislative Monitor Login

• Drafting legislation and working to achieve enactment
• Monitoring and reporting on legislative issues
• Successfully amending or defeating adverse legislation
• Working with the Governor's office on various legislation
• Working with the Insurance Commissioner on various legislation
• Serving on appointed task forces on various issues
• Speaking at conferences, public hearings and seminars
• Organizing and administering trade associations

• Rate and form filings
• Interfacing with the Office of the Insurance Commissioner
• Formation and sale of insurance companies
• Comments on informational letters and rulings from the Office of the Insurance Commissioner
• Opinion letters
• Obtaining relief from vague or onerous regulations
• Involvement in insurer insolvency matters
• Involvement in NOLHGA's members' participation council

• Analyzing issues and offering solutions that involve contact or negotiation with regulatory agencies
• Drafting legislation and lobbying for passage
• Monitoring and reporting legislative activities during regular and special sessions, as well as interim committee studies of issues affecting clients
• Leading efforts for reforms relating to insurance and related industries
• Analysis of trends and offering strategies to address client needs
• Assisting clients with licensing and other regulatory compliance needs
• Advancing client interests relating to the administrative rule making process
• Consulting with clients on insurance needs and reviewing proposals for coverage or programs
• Expert witness testimony
• Political consulting
• Speaking at conferences, public hearings and seminars
• Offering management, consulting or legal support to trade associations and other organizations
• Public issue advocacy

• Business and occupation taxation (both state and local)
• State sales and use taxation
• Motor fuel excise taxes
• Nonresident income tax withholding
• Personal income taxes
• Property appraisals, valuations and assessments
• Property tax exemptions
• Real property transfer taxes
• Severance taxes
• Tax credits based on job creation or investment
• Property tax reductions for manufacturing property
• Corporation net income taxation, including apportionment and combined reporting

• Monitoring and commenting on the application of tax laws by state and local taxing authorities
• Negotiating appraisals, valuations and assessments by those authorities
• Assisting clients in obtaining designations, certificates, rulings and other types of authority
• Evaluating and providing comments on proposed tax laws and regulations
• Assisting in the acquisition of tax credits and favorable valuations for new and expanding businesses
• Litigating petitions for refund or credit, petitions for reassessment and declaratory judgment actions
• Negotiating fines and penalties
• Advising new and established businesses on state and local tax matters
• Representing clients before the West Virginia Office of Tax Appeals and in courts of this state
• Representing clients before county commissions sitting as boards of equalization and review in property tax matters
• Representing clients in tax matters before the West Virginia Office of Tax Appeals, circuit courts and the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia