Firm Overview

Ms. Weinstein engages in a government affairs, international and U.S. business, and procurement practice.

As we bridge the transom in this new millennium, in this highly charged world of dazzling complexity, interconnectedness, and disarray, astute leadership engage in a multi-dimensional approach, integrating the best of the geopolitical, legal, corporate, think tank, and sector worlds. Ms. Weinstein and her preeminent team provide the distinctive services necessary to advance the complex issue sets today's executive leadership face.

A graduate of the Law School of the University of Chicago, Ms. Weinstein has been engaged in this practice for over twenty-five years. She advises prominent corporations, high tech and small business, renowned universities, organizations, and governments. She counsels and structures on behalf of chief executives, and those ranking in public and private entities. Ms. Weinstein is an active participant in the national security, high tech, energy, environmental, and other sectors, think tanks and circles. She identifies, tracks, and presents legislative and policy agendas, and has accessed multi-millions of dollars of funding for paradigm-shifting and more routine projects and assets from the U.S. Congressional and federal agency processes and, at times, from foreign counterparts. Further details are available at the Government Affairs page. Another area of focus is the expansion of client business in established and emerging markets, in Europe, Asia, the former Russian and Central Asian Republics, the Middle East, Indo-Pacific, Africa, and other venues.

As it is a boutique practice, there is scalability. Ms. Weinstein is highly cognizant of the landscape, and can quickly draw upon the deep expertise and knowledge bases of some of the world's most esteemed global, sector, situational experts, and law firms. What makes the practice unique, is the ability to quickly access these multi-faceted sources for optimization. Chief executives are equipped with the vetted, deliberative, choice information for the very fast track.

Focus includes activities at the U.S. Departments of State, Defense, the national security research and acquisition agencies, environmental and green issues, energy security, new energy and renewables, Departments of Commerce, Transportation, the U.S. Forest Service and other programs at the U.S. Department Agriculture, FEMA, extensive with the international emergency situations, other government and multilateral equivalents. Ms. Weinstein and clients have been active before the U.S. legislative and executive branches, and certain international bodies, including with clients testifying before Congress, and who have served in prominent activities, including at the White House, the executive agencies, and others. Activities have involved the procurement of aircraft, and other assets and technologies to the U.S. government and foreign equivalents. Ms. Weinstein serves as vice chair of the ABA National Security Committee, advisor to the Capitol chapter of the national security, cyber organization, the Old Crows, as a longtime former board member of the MIT Enterprise Forum, and engaged in numerous other initiatives, organizations, and boards. Projects also have included those for a prominent U.S. homeland security university center, diverse international emergency situations; waste-to-energy conversion and similar projects, old, new, and the geopolitical aspects of energy, environmental, global warming, green technologies advancement, issues and procurement, natural resource enhancement, forestry, infrastructure, agribusiness, projects for urban, rural and transformative communities, hospital and health initiatives, advisory on behalf of and vis-à-vis some major recognized multinational corporations, diplomatic and state agendas; activities involving the regions and countries of the moment, viz., trans-Atlantic, UK, continental Western, Central and South Europe; Pacific, South and East Asia, Central Asia and the Russian Republics, the Middle East, Africa, the dynamics of Arctic politics, and as clients' needs dictate