ML Strategies Expands D.C Practice with Veteran House Staffer Jeremy Rabinovitz
2/12/2007
Joins Growing Practice of Bi-Partisan, Former Senior Level
Congressional and Executive Branch Staffers
Washington, D.C. - ML Strategies, LLC, the consulting affiliate of law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC, announced that Jeremy Rabinovitz, a veteran staffer of the House of Representatives, will join its Washington, D.C. office as Vice President of Government Relations. Rabinovitz starts at ML Strategies on March 5.
A 20-year veteran of the House, Mr. Rabinovitz has served as Chief of Staff for Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) since her special election in 1998. He held the same position for her late husband, first-term Representative Walter Capps (D-CA). Congresswoman Capps serves on the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Under his guidance, Representative Capps developed a substantial legislative profile on a range of issues, including health care, the environment, energy, telecommunications, and international relations.
Prior to serving for Representative Walter Capps, Mr. Rabinovitz served as Chief of Staff for Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) where he oversaw many of her successful efforts on the Banking and Government Reform Committees and for Rep. Stephen Solarz (D-NY), a widely respected senior Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Rabinovitz joins former Capitol Hill veterans David Leiter, the former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy during the Clinton/Gore administration and Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA); Mark Buse who worked 18 years for United States Senator John McCain (R-AZ), both in the Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives and was Staff Director and Majority Policy Director of the Senate Commerce Committee and; Steve Irizarry, formerly Senior Health Counsel to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the Senate Aging, and the House Energy and Commerce Committees; and Ken Connolly, formerly Staff Director of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and Legislative Director to Senator James Jefford (I-VT).
"Jeremy's 20-plus years on the Hill provide him with the kind of experience and understanding of the vast array of issues that are most important to our clients," said Stephen P. Tocco, President of ML Strategies.
A Boston native, Mr. Rabinovitz attended Harvard College, graduating with a degree in psychology and social relations.
Established in 1990 as an affiliate of Mintz Levin, ML Strategies provides consulting services in areas of professional expertise strategic to a client's success. These areas, which are often linked to a client's legal matters but are non-legal in nature, include: government affairs and representation; the development of major infrastructure or real estate projects; public relations and crisis communications; environmental health and safety; health care safety; aviation industry business development and international business. ML Strategies' clients range from start-up and emerging businesses to major companies and business associations involved in a wide variety of industries such as high technology, biotechnology, real estate, telecommunications, financial services, pharmaceuticals, health care, insurance, energy and environmental services; international and multinational firms; real estate developers; public agencies and municipalities and nonprofit institutions.
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC is a multidisciplinary law firm with more than 450 attorneys and senior professionals in Boston, Washington D.C., New York, Stamford, CT, Los Angeles, London, Palo Alto and San Diego.
