Goldman Relations believes in relationships, understands politics, and is driven by policy.

Our services

Goldman Relations does not accept all matters presented. It will only agree to help if it believes in the mission and can see a pathway to success. When Goldman Relations takes on a matter, it typically charges a monthly retainer, not an hourly rate. After all, advocating successfully for clients requires educating the right people in the right ways and navigating among them to get the job done.

Sometimes, this can take time.

Process

Government relations is a process. Goldman Relations, LLC starts that process by learning further about the issues, the current political landscape, and the client’s position. This happens with direct client involvement and through performing additional research.

Development

Goldman Relations develops customized strategies to address the client’s goals. For more complex or nuanced policy issues, Goldman Relations may sometimes recommend involving additional professionals to build a broader or more specialized team. Depending on the issue, strategies may be multilayered and involve multiple elected officials, executives, and their staffs from different branches and agencies within government.

Conversation

Conversations may start by approaching elected officials, cabinet secretaries, or agency heads and, with their guidance, distill into detailed discussions with those who work directly on particular issues in a more hands-on way. Other conversations may start lower in the hierarchy with a focus on the frontline details and evolve upward or outward. Sometimes issues are best addressed entirely at lower levels of government and contained there.

Discussion

Frequently, successful strategies will involve discussions with government lawyers. This may include attorneys in the Governor’s Office of General Counsel, Chief Counsel of certain agencies, or other dedicated attorneys working within an agency on an issue of importance, or across agencies and elected offices.

Where appropriate laws or regulations do not already exist to address a client’s issues, Goldman Relations may approach state senators or representatives and their staffs to suggest drafting or modifying legislation, or may approach elected officials or agency heads to explore taking executive action or engaging in the regulatory or rule-making process.

Once an initial strategy is agreed to and in place, Goldman Relations will begin to execute. By nature, the initial strategy is dynamic. Clients are kept apprised of developments through regular conversations and updates. As the process unfolds, Goldman Relations interrogates and reassesses, allowing its strategy to evolve with changing developments in the field.

  • Notice of non-legal nature of services pursuant to Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct, Pa. RPC 5.7.

    Goldman Relations, LLC is a government relations business entity separate and distinct from any law firm practice with which Jonathan Scott Goldman is affiliated, including Goldman Law, PLLC d/b/a the Goldman Law Team. Though Jonathan is a practicing attorney and a member of the bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Goldman Relations does not provide legal services. As principal of Goldman Relations, Jonathan is not acting as your attorney, and neither he nor Goldman Relations are providing you with legal services.

    Goldman Relations, LLC maintains strict confidentiality as to all clients and matters. Goldman Relations will not disclose any non-public or proprietary information you have shared with it to third parties without your consent, except as required by law, court order, or as necessary and agreed by you to advocate on your behalf. An engagement with Goldman Relations, however, does not establish an attorney-client relationship, and the legal protections and privileges of an attorney-client relationship do not exist in or apply to any engagement with Goldman Relations. Communications between clients and Goldman Relations are not protected by the legal doctrine of attorney-client privilege.

  • Notice of Compliance with the Pennsylvania Lobbying Disclosure Law, 65 Pa. C.S. § 13A01, et seq.

    Goldman Relations, LLC complies with all facets of Pennsylvania’s Lobbying Disclosure Law which, among other things, sets legal registration and reporting requirements and prohibits contingent compensation, conflicts of interest, falsification, and other unlawful acts by lobbyists. While Goldman Relations represents all clients diligently, it makes no promise or representation as to whether the services provided are likely to be successful or lead to the intended result. Goldman Relations does not and cannot guarantee the specific outcome of any matter. Government relations outcomes can be complex and depend on many factors, some of which are beyond its control.