By GREGORY ZELLER //
One of Long Island’s most prestigious law firms has gained a significant strategic advantage through a new partnership with a lean, mean and well-regarded Washington-based PR firm.
Uniondale-based Rivkin Radler has announced a “strategic affiliation” with Liberty Partners Group, a leading government-relations firm with nearly two decades of experience delivering public affairs counsel to major corporations, industry associations and nonprofit organizations – particularly those dealing with the White House, the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and various federal agencies.
Specific terms of the affiliation were not disclosed. But the alliance gives Rivkin Radler – which boasts 250-plus attorneys in 23 practice groups and maintains offices across New York State, with satellites in New Jersey and Florida – a sturdy foothold in the District of Columbia.
Evan Krinick: Liberty made a strong case.
It also gives the circa-1950 law firm – and its clients – frontline access to a powerful team of bipartisan lobbyists, including former U.S. Senators Connie Mack (R-Florida) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan).
Liberty Partners Group, meanwhile, can offer its clients the wisdom and experience of a deep bench of attorneys with a long history of effective government engagement – a win-win for current and future clients of both entities, according to Rivkin Radler Managing Partner Evan Krinick.
“We explored different options and concluded that partnering with Liberty Partners, a high-quality and well-respected bipartisan firm, would best serve our clients’ needs,” Krinick said.
The alliance is especially important, the managing partner added, in light of rapid-fire changes to the U.S. healthcare system being orchestrated by the White House.
“Now, more than ever, it is important for our clients to gain frontline access to the numerous agencies and congressional committees implementing and enforcing the significant federal changes that impact our healthcare system,” he noted.
Founded in 2010, Liberty Partners Group employs a team of roughly 10 professionals, including the former U.S. senators, various ex-congressional staffers and multiple attorneys. Together, the A-list staff brings to the table more than 160 years of combined experience in 30-plus industrial sectors.
Noting an existing relationship with Rivkin Radler attorney Norton Travis, Liberty Partners Group Founder and Chairman Andrew Woods trumpeted a professional association that promises big things for his firm’s major-league customers and the law firm’s well-established client base.
“We are excited to have this strategic relationship with Rivkin Radler and look forward to bringing additional value to their clients,” Woods said Monday. “We are honored to be working with [Travis] and Rivkin Radler’s healthcare attorneys.”
Travis, of counsel to Rivkin Radler’s Health Services Practice Group, said he was confident that the new partnership “will provide significant support for our clients who are impacted by volatility in the healthcare industry and beyond.”
Andrew Woods: Excited and honored.
“Over the past two decades, I have worked with them on numerous projects where their extensive relationships with members of Congress, HHS, CMS and other federal agencies have provided invaluable assistance,” the attorney added.
To christen the new collaboration, Stabenow – who served on the Michigan State Legislature and represented the Wolverine State in the U.S. House of Representatives for four years before becoming the first-ever Michigan woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, an office she held from 2001 to 2025 – is now slated to lead Rivkin Radler’s Health Law Forum, scheduled for October.
“We are excited to announce that, to kick off our affiliation with Liberty Partners, former Sen. Debbie Stabenow … will be the keynote speaker at our upcoming Health Law Forum in New York City,” Rikin Radler Health Services Practice Group Co-chairman Benjamin Malerba said in a statement, adding that both the former senator and Woods would “share their insights on the ever-changing federal healthcare landscape.”
