Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC (1888PressRelease)
May 09, 2008 - Ragsdale Liggett PLLC (www.rl-law.com) has announced that the Lobbying and Government Relations Group at the firm is a sponsor of the North Carolina Chamber 2008 Government Affairs Conference. Morton Kondracke, executive editor of Roll Call newspaper and a contributor to Fox News, will keynote the conference to be held at the Marbles Museum Venture Hall at 201 E. Hargett St. on Wednesday, May 14 from 11:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
The event will host the leadership of the N.C. General Assembly to discuss the upcoming legislative session as well as the 2008 political season. It will also feature a panel of experts who plan to speak about how to use strategic messaging to position an organization’s top issues. The strategic message session will be followed by a reporters’ roundtable wherein members of the state Capital Press Corps will discuss the political season in North Carolina and how the outcomes of the primary elections may impact general election outcomes, as well as highlight any upsets and trends they recognize that have occurred or are forthcoming.
The Ragsdale Liggett Lobbying and Government Relations Group maintains extensive knowledge in legislative and regulatory matters. Past and current clients include government agencies, public and private business entities and trade associations.
News Facts:
• Ragsdale Liggett PLLC has announced that the Lobbying and Government Relations Group at the firm is a sponsor of the North Carolina Chamber 2008 Government Affairs Conference.
• The conference will be held at the Marbles Museum Venture Hall at 201 E. Hargett St. on Wednesday, May 14 from 11:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
• The event will host the leadership of the N.C. General Assembly to discuss the upcoming legislative session as well as the 2008 political season.
• The Ragsdale Liggett Lobbying and Government Relations Group maintains extensive knowledge in legislative and regulatory matters.
Quotes:
“We are excited to be a sponsor of the North Carolina Chamber 2008 Government Affairs Conference,” said Frank Liggett, managing partner and a founding member at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC. “The event provides a great opportunity for discussion on the various issues surrounding the upcoming political season.”
“As North Carolina’s largest, broad-based, non-partisan business advocacy organization, our state Chamber is pleased to be hosting this sell-out event on such timely political topics in this important and historical election year,” said North Carolina Chamber President and CEO Lew Ebert. “We could not bring this kind of exciting and relevant event to the business community and other players in the political and policy arena without the support of our corporate partners,” he added. “This Government Affairs Conference will be an annual event for our state Chamber.”
About Ragsdale Liggett, PLLC:
The law firm of Ragsdale Liggett, PLLC, is comprised of lawyers with extensive legal expertise across a broad range of practice areas, as well as experienced non-lawyer professionals. Known for their innovations in the arena of corporate law, Ragsdale Liggett lawyers are equipped to handle all of a business' legal needs, including formation, day-to-day business counseling, acquisition, disposition, merger and dissolution of companies ranging in size from small local businesses to national financial institutions and large international insurance conglomerates. The diverse real estate practice group at Ragsdale Liggett handles a wide variety of real estate transactions, from residential purchases and sales to all aspects of commercial real estate development, including entity formation, final project completion, complex public and private bond financing transactions, and the privatization of university student housing. Since its formation in 1972, the firm has developed an extraordinary reputation in the area of civil litigation and has enjoyed significant courtroom successes ranging from local state courts to the United States Supreme Court in areas with far-reaching implications, such as insurance/reinsurance coverage disputes, shareholder derivative actions, ERISA disputes, professional negligence defense, accountants liability actions, catastrophic personal injury defense and complex construction disputes. In 2008, the firm formally established a lobbying and government relations group comprised of both lawyer and non-lawyer professionals which represents client interests before the North Carolina General Assembly, the executive branch and various state agencies. For more information, please call (919) 787-5200 or view the firm's Web site at www.rl-law.com.
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