Nixon Peabody Launches Government Relations Practice

Nixon Peabody has brought on a former congressman and his former chief of staff to work with the firm’s new 40-person government relations & public policy team.

Former Representative Thomas Reynolds, a New York Republican, will be a senior strategic policy adviser. He is prohibited from lobbying Congress until January 2010.

His former chief of staff Sally Vastola is joining as a strategic policy adviser.

Washington-based partner Richard Goldstein will lead the new practice group.

In February, Nixon Peabody laid off 56 attorneys and staff.

Nixon Peabody LLP is one of the largest multi-practice law firms in the US, with offices in seventeen cities in the United States and one in London, and more than seven hundred attorneys in twenty-five major practice areas.