As a result of our collective experience working in and with the government, we provide valuable insight and a vast network of contacts.
Thompson Coburn has a strong regulatory and administrative law practice that covers the industries and services that most frequently interact with government entities—banking, transportation, aviation, energy, international trade and securities.
In addition, our attorneys continue the firm’s rich tradition of being active in federal and state politics, government agencies and public service. As a result of our collective experience working in and with the government, we provide valuable insight and a vast network of contacts that we put to work on behalf of our clients in the many aspects of regulatory and legislative processes. Our lawyers have decades of experience and represent clients in a wide variety of complex and critical regulatory issues arising before federal agencies and courts, the U.S. Congress and international bodies. These issues have involved compliance, competition and antitrust proceedings, safety and environmental regulation, licensing, joint ventures and international services. Our administrative law practice includes all aspects of administrative proceedings and judicial review of agency action. Our attorneys practice before many federal regulatory agencies within departments and independent commissions of the U.S. government—the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), the Surface Transportation Board (STB), the Department of Commerce, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of the Treasury, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the International Trade Commission (ITC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).