The following presents a brief summary of our collective experience, the services we provide to both government relations and legal services clients, and the philosophy we bring to governmental relations tasks. OUR EXPERIENCE We collectively have well over 100 years of experience in state government and state government relations work. Our professionals know Illinois government from having served in both its legislative and executive branches, and having represented a wide range of clients including corporations, associations, partnerships, non-profits, governments and individuals. Our professionals have particular substantive expertise in such fields as utility regulation, insurance law, health care, zoning, property taxation, pension system administration, transportation, and municipal law. We also have experience in the areas of government procurement and agency rulemaking. We bring substantial resources to our practice. Our Springfield office, located a block-and-a-half from the state capitol, is staffed throughout the year. In Chicago, our offices are located across the street from the James R. Thompson Center (the state executive offices) and are housed within the suite of a Chicago-based law firm of 2700 lawyers with offices in 20 U.S. cities and 20 nations worldwide – this subtenant relationship affords us ready access to experts in virtually every legal discipline. We have a fully-equipped and stocked library, and subscribe to numerous electronic data bases and governmental periodicals and newsletters. In our government relations work, in addition to pursuing specific client objectives, we provide comprehensive monitoring of all bills, amendments, conference committee reports and resolutions introduced before the General Assembly, monitoring of all rulemaking efforts of state agencies, and review of major Illinois newspapers for articles pertaining to Illinois government.