Howard Vine joined Dickstein Shapiro as a partner in the Public Policy & Law Practice in February 2003. He focuses his practice on counseling clients in government decision making, and providing creative solutions to traditional Washington problems. In 2007, Washingtonian magazine named Mr. Vine one of Washington, DC’s “50 Top Lobbyists.”

 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Over a 25-year career in government relations law, Mr. Vine has represented clients in a diverse range of Congressional and regulatory matters affecting federal securities law, international trade rights and remedies, medical reimbursement rates, electricity competition and associated products, and federal taxation policy and municipal appropriations.

Mr. Vine joined Dickstein Shapiro from Greenberg Traurig, LLP, where he was the founder and former managing shareholder of the firm’s Washington, DC office. As a member of Greenberg Traurig’s Government Affairs practice, he focused on governmental and administrative law, international trade, federal appropriations, healthcare, tax, antitrust, securities, and corporate governance matters. He successfully led a business coalition in its challenge to USDA proposed regulations attempting to levy an import license on sugar, secured federal funding for the State of Florida Citrus Canker eradication program, managed and negotiated the settlement of the trade conflict between tomato growers in the United States and Mexico, wrote anti-circumvention legislation in the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988; and produced results for an array of clients with discrete interests before the federal government.

Prior to his association with Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Mr. Vine was the senior vice president and Director of International Trade and head of business development for the lobbying firm The Jefferson Group. He was a Senior Associate at the Washington branch of the Ohio law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP and also spent six years as an assistant vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers.

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Mr. Vine chaired the Clinton/Gore transition team, which wrote the administration’s briefing book on the Council of Economic Advisers. Additionally, he was a member of the American Bar Association’s Ad Hoc Task Force on the Federal Criminal Code, and the past chairman and member of the Subcommittee on SEC Administration, Budget, and Legislation. He is a member of the boards of directors of the National Jewish Democratic Council, Faith in America, the Capital Area Reach Program, and the National Music Center Museum and Foundation. He also serves as a member of the Executive Council of the Policy Roundtable of the Democratic Leadership Council.

He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia.

 

EDUCATION

Mr. Vine received his B.A. in Government & Public Affairs from American University, (1975), and his J.D. from the George Mason University School of Law (1978).