Our job is to ensure our clients’ voices are heard by California policymakers and to ensure their priorities influence public policy.  Lobbying is our craft and our partners have worked together for nearly 25 years to provide honest counsel, design insightful strategies, and exhaust our clients’ opponents. For these reasons and more, our firm has consistently ranked among the state’s top lobbying firms.

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 WHO WE ARE

Since 1985, Edelstein Gilbert Robson & Smith LLC has professionally represented public entities, trade associations, non-profit organizations, and Fortune 500 companies before the State Legislature, regulatory agencies, and the Governor’s Office.

OUR WORK

With more than 30 years of experience, Edelstein Gilbert Robson & Smith LLC can point to numerous significant accomplishments. Click below to see just a sample of the many successes the firm has produced for its clients.

RECENT SUCCESSES

$2 Billion State Budget Victory

On behalf of our local utility clients, during the COVID-19 crisis we successfully lobbied to ensure the 2021-22 California State Budget provided $2 billion to pay off the delinquent utility accounts of ratepayers economically harmed by COVID-19. The size and scope of these programs are unprecedented. We were also successful in inserting much of the language governing how these state programs were implemented, ensuring that every utility and every ratepayer that applied would receive a portion of the funding. Without this State Budget success, it is likely that many utilities would never have recovered the funds to satisfy delinquent accounts.

Successfully Leading a Coalition to Reverse Cuts to Healthcare Reimbursement in State Budget

Our client, a major healthcare provider, was continuously underpaid by the state Medi-Cal program while also absorbing clawbacks of previous revenue due to an outdated payment policy. The Administration was unwilling to correct this policy despite our successful effort putting a bipartisan bill on the Governor’s desk to do so. Undeterred, we turned to the state budget process. Our firm built and led a strong coalition of similarly situated healthcare providers and successfully pushed these reimbursement and policy changes into the state budget in 2021, thereby sending money back to our client and the other providers.