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Holly Fechner is co-chair of the firm’s Government Affairs Practice Group, which has been ranked among the top five law and lobby firms by Influence magazine for the last several years. She has two decades of legal, legislative and public policy experience in the public and private sectors. Ms. Fechner has a broad-based practice handling legislative and regulatory matters for clients in areas including healthcare, tax, intellectual property, education, and employee benefits. Drawing on her extensive congressional and private sector experience, Ms. Fechner offers clients comprehensive advocacy services, including strategic advice, substantive legal and regulatory expertise, and policy and message development. She has a proven track record in assisting clients fulfill their government affairs goals.
Ms. Fechner was Policy Director for Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts). In that position, she developed policy initiatives, legislation and campaigns on a broad range of issues, including the economy, health care, employment, education, retirement policy, and civil rights. She was also Chief Labor & Pensions Counsel for the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee. Ms. Fechner served as chief negotiator on legislation to reform the private pension system; increase the federal minimum wage; extend unemployment insurance benefits; prevent genetic discrimination in health care and employment, and numerous other bills. In her eight years on Capitol Hill, she drove passage of over a dozen laws worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Representative Matters
- Represent a national health plan on Affordable Care Act implementation.
- Represent a Fortune 100 technology company on tax legislation before Congress.
- Advise a global biotechnology company.
- Represent a Fortune 300 technology company on intellectual property policy and legislation.
- Advise a multi-billion dollar pension trust fund on matters before Congress and the Administration.
- Represent a large coalition of States on Medicare and Medicaid legislation.
- Represented a wind energy company on tax and energy legislation.
- Facilitated a coalition of companies and environmental groups and represented them before Congress on climate change legislation.
- Advised a large non-profit on judiciary matters.
- Represented a Fortune 100 company in a congressional investigation.
Previous Experience
- U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Policy Director
- Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, Chief Labor & Pensions Counsel
- AFL-CIO, Legislative Counsel
- National Partnership for Women & Families, Policy Counsel
Honors and Rankings
- National Association of Women Lawyers Award for Outstanding Woman Law Graduate
- Scribes Award for Outstanding Published Work
Memberships and Affiliations
- Institute for Women's Policy Research, Board Member
- Center for Worklife Law, Advisory Board Member
- Maryland State Higher Education Labor Relations Board, Appointed Member
Publications and Speeches
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