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Holly Fechner is a member of the firm’s Government Affairs Practice Group. She has over 18 years 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.
Most recently, Ms. Fechner was Policy Director for Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts). In that position, Ms. Fechner developed policy initiatives, legislation and campaigns on a broad range of domestic and international issues, including the economy, workplace rights, health care, education, retirement security, 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 three times; prevent genetic discrimination in health care and employment, strengthen mine safety; compensate energy employees for exposure to toxic substances; 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 Fortune 500 technology company on patent legislation.
- Represent a large pension trust fund on matters before Congress.
- Represent a large coalition of States on matters before Congress, including Medicare and Medicaid legislation.
- Represent 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.
- Represented 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
- National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, American Bar Association (2007)
- National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans (2007)
- Minimum Wage Op-Ed, Houston Chronicle (7/24/2007)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (2008)
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