L. Carter Cornick

Carter, the firm’s Director of Government Relations and Communications, brings clients comprehensive federal and state government relations and communications services. He has over 25 years of consulting and federal government service, including more than eight years in the U.S. Senate, nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives, and nearly five years at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”). He has held senior leadership roles, including chief of staff to U.S. Senator John Warner and general deputy assistant secretary for congressional and intergovernmental relations for two HUD secretaries.

Carter has served with leaders in the U.S. Congress and two administrations and worked with business, public sector, and nonprofit policy leaders. His leadership on policy and strategy initiatives has enabled him to build effective communications and government relations strategies and plans for clients of all sizes and in a broad range of industries.

Working with the firm’s attorneys from numerous practices, including housing, healthcare, privacy, corporate, litigation, transportation, and infrastructure, Carter draws on his unique government experience, broad-based relationships, and a deep understanding of the policy and regulatory process. He brings creative insights to clients that help them confirm or identify important opportunities and address their specific challenges which, on occasion, will require the attention of federal or state government officials. Carter has unique experience in crisis communications and response (planning and strategy) particularly in natural disasters and white-collar crime. Most recently, he has worked with affordable housing officials — at all levels of government — stakeholders, and constituent groups to secure important protections in appropriations law benefiting residents, and PHAs and property owners. Whether the objective is to help preserve the affordable housing supply or bring federal disaster assistance and recovery funds to a region in need, Carter consistently works closely with key lawmakers in Congress — and their senior staff — to produce effective results.