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Government Relations

Justine is an Advocate. She practices law with a community focus.

AdvocacyBoth state and local governments affect your life each and every day. Government action touches your life in enumerable ways, including determining where your children go to school and how much you pay in taxes. Your representatives make a difference in your life whether you know it or not and it’s important for them to understand what issues affect your family, your neighbors, and your community as a whole. This is why advocacy is critical for democracy. Advocates work with representatives to help them understand the impact of legislative actions on their constituents.

Do you need an experienced Texas lobbyist to help your business, develop a legislative solution or resolve a regulatory problem? If so, Fanarof Law stands ready to help. Justine Fanarof guides her clients who lobby the Texas legislature and state agencies, keeping them focused on their message, analyzing strategies, developing policy briefs, and more, all with political tact and skill.

Justine helps small businesses and non-profit groups with legislative changes impacting their work, strategizing the best path forward with a customized plan to achieve each client’s goals cost-effectively. She can also advocate for your interests before Texas lawmakers and agencies. Justine has diverse experience in sectors including non-profit, immigration, and healthcare. As an advocate, Justine has more than a decade of experience working on legislative initiatives in the State of Texas. She was a Fellow for the University of Texas Institute for Health Policy at the Texas Legislature and a clerk for the House Committee on Public Health, serving under Representative and Chairwoman Dianne White Delisi. In addition to her work in Texas, Justine has extensive experience working on legislative initiatives in Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Washington, D.C.

Justine has extensive knowledge and understanding of the Texas legislative process, including fiscal analysis. She offers policy consulting services and strategic assistance dealing with state government.

Fanarof Law helps you throughout the legislative and agency rulemaking process, including drafting and introducing legislation for bills you oppose or support. She provides creative solutions to legislative issues, no matter how big or small.

Government Relations Services:

  • Public policy analysis
  • Legislative advocacy
  • Legislative document drafting
  • Coalition building + community organizing
  • Communication strategies
  • Legal counsel

Justine has worked with many corporations, universities, non-profits, and religious institutions, including:

 

It’s a rare person in this world to say, “It’s going to be hard but we need to have this conversation.” Justine does just this. In doing so she fosters a solution through action environment. She has this way of dealing with very challenging issues and people, bringing communication, negotiation, deep listening, and presence together. She creates a path that lets me know I’m supported and everything is going to be ok.
And she’s just really ethical.

Monica Pope Chef/Owner, Sparrow Cookshop

I am so grateful that I had you as my advocate and supporter through this process. THANK YOU.

Dr. Carmen Timberlake

Justine is a dedicated and articulate attorney with a passion for making the world a better place. She is also a quick study, with good judgment and an engaging personality that makes her a delight to have as a colleague.

Steven Freeman VP of Civil Rights, Anti-Defamation League

Justine is very responsive to the needs of her clients. I recently worked with Justine to review a contract and she completed a thorough analysis within a one week time frame as requested.

Maria Eva Infection Control Manager at Houston Methodist

I wanted to reach out and thank you once again for such a spectacular presentation last Friday. I received great feedback and many have asked for the recording. I feel like it was just what we all needed to help us refocus and “find our zen.” Thank you!!!!

Monica Mensah Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, University of Houston Law Center

I really, really enjoyed your class. Driving home I thought that every law firm in Houston should hire you! Clerks and new lawyers need these skill sets.

As I said at the Jung Center, your practices are better than a glass of wine. I continue to do your shoulder exercises and spinal twist. I felt these stretches for days. Please keep me on your list for other seminars. Thanks again.

Sally Shaw Jefferson Energy

Justine helped me write a poignant agreement contract for both my clients and me to follow. It was a clean document that was easy to understand and gave both sides of the table a solid foundation to work from. I would happily use Justine again for any work that involved finding common ground to then work from.

Ileya Grosman, M.Ed. Client

I wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed the course at the Jung Center. I have attended mindfulness trainings for lawyers led by non-lawyers & yoga classes taught by former lawyers, but yours was the first I have attended that was taught by someone who really understood and sustained both practices at the same time. I found the course very accessible and felt connected to and inspired by your experience -- thank you!

Andrea Randisi TX & CA Licensed Attorney

Even having practiced law myself, I never really resonated with the term “counselor at law”. When I started working with Justine, that changed. Instead of simply reacting to the legal issue at hand, we discuss the totality of the circumstances. She understands that my business is an extension of me, and she counsels me, legally and emotionally, accordingly.

Elizabeth Whitehead

As a new entrepreneur, I reached out to Justine to write my first business contract. I trusted that Justine would create a fair, collaborative contract that would not intimidate my clients, and would protect me and my work. She thoughtfully listened to my needs and came up with creative solutions, not giving me a cookie-cutter contract. As a multi-faceted business owner herself, Justine appreciates the intricacies of being a service provider and maintaining clients' trust. Justine is extremely professional, yet maintains mindfulness in all her endeavors. I could not recommend her any more highly!

Patricia Trachtenberg Studio T Interiors

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