Our FEMA Lawyers Assist Clients with FEMA Regulations and FEMA Compliance

Our services range from short-term consultation services to guiding applicants through the FEMA process from start to finish. Specifically, we offer:

• With FEMA Law Associates on your team,you will have expertise necessary to maximize the benefits for which you are eligible — from all of the sources available to you.

  Legal and Regulatory Support — FEMA Law Associates identifies and minimizes eligibility hurdles for all DHS/FEMA disaster assistance programs. In particular, we help minimize reduction in FEMA grants made as a result of disaster procurement issues, insurance coverage and other "duplications of benefits"; identify and implement potential opportunities for adding mitigation and upgrade costs to grant benefits; and prepare appeals from application denials and reduced eligibility.
• Specialized National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Support — FEMA Law Associates offers support to organizations that participate in DHS/FEMA's NFIP, which carries its own detailed set of regulations and policies and therefore its own set of restrictions, issues and complications. We also assist clients with floodplain management or floodplain mapping disputes.
• General FEMA Regulatory Support — FEMA Law Associates constantly monitors all DHS/FEMA regulations and programs to identify proposals that adversely affect clients’ interests. We represent clients before DHS/FEMA to ensure that their interests are fully understood and considered during DHS/FEMA's rulemaking process.

• Emergency Management Preparedness Guidance — FEMA Law Associates has a keen working knowledge of the legal authorities and issues related to emergency management preparedness. We can advise clients who may be eligible for funding through one or more of the nation’s emergency preparedness initiatives or who are directed by the federal government to supply goods or services under the nation's emergency preparedness and civil defense authorities.
• Emergency Management Guides — FEMA Law Associates has prepared training material handbooks for various associations customized to their particular industry:
• Handbook on FEMA for Public Power Managers for the American Public Power Association APPA
• An Electric Cooperative’s Introduction to FEMA for the Ohio Rural Electric Cooperatives Association ORECA
• Course book and DVD training video developed for state and local lawyers, which addresses key legal issues in emergency preparedness, response, and recovery
• Education and Training — FEMA Law Associates offers formal training sessions as well as informal seminars on a number of issues covering the topics of Emergency Management, Homeland Security, Public Health Emergency Law, Hurricane Katrina response. These programs familiarize clients’ staff teams, and other professionals with DHS/FEMA's programs, eligibility, and processes. Previously prepared training programs or presentations for the following:
  • Airports Council International
  • International Municipal Lawyer’s Association
  • Natural Hazards Center, Boulder, Colorado
  • The National Academies of Science Disaster Roundtable
  • Office of Legal Education Executive Office for United States Attorneys- Crisis Management Coordinators’ Conference
  • Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC- Public Health Training Course
  • Numerous Bar Associations
  • Ohio Rural Electric Cooperatives Association

If you or your organization have questions about FEMA regulations or FEMA compliance, please contact our FEMA Lawyers.