Governmental Affairs

White Arnold & Dowd attorneys regularly counsel clients, including many elected officials, on the laws and rules pertaining to federal and state political contributions, political action committees, voting rights and ethics.

Our attorneys have also represented clients in election challenges and contests across the state. Attorney Rebecca DePalma co-authored Political Activity Guide for Corporations, providing a general overview to companies and individuals of the law as it relates to campaign finance, lobbying and congressional gift law.

Greg Hawley has represented elected officials in state and federal court in election contests and voting rights cases. He regularly counsels corporations, elected officials, and county governments about state and federal laws regulating political activity, political action committees, fundraising and other issues.

Mark White served on Alabama’s first Judicial Campaign Oversight Committee, and he recently received the National Center for the State Courts Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his work on improving the judicial election process. Since 2001, Mark White has served as co-chair of the NCSC-sponsored Ad Hoc National Advisory Committee on Judicial Campaign Conduct, making major presentations to the Conference of Chief Judges, providing advice to state supreme courts, and serving as lead faculty for NCSC-sponsored workshops on establishing state judicial campaign conduct committees.