Serving clients based throughout the state of Texas and across the nation, WCG includes four full-time professionals in Austin and two in Washington, D.C., and several lawyers within Winstead who spend a majority of their time working on governmental matters.

Our WCG team members include:

• James L. Bayless, Jr. – Former Legislative Counsel to Senator John Tower, Reagan White House staff member, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce 
• Janis Carter – Former Director of the Texas House Committee on Appropriations, key player in Texas tax and appropriation issues  
• Wendy M. Foster – Legislative policy assistant for the former Texas Speaker of the House and former project director for Water Texas   
• William LaForge – Former chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture and Chief of Staff to Senator Thad Cochran 
• Lynn Sherman – Authority on water rights, water development and utilities and former President of Water Texas
• Paul N. Wageman – Lieutenant Governor Appointee to Texas Sunset Advisory Commission and Administrative Assistant to former U.S. Representative Pete Geren 

Representative Matters

Representative of the effectiveness of the Winstead Consulting Group are such matters as:

• Texas Building Branch of the Association of General Contractors – Legislation allowing statutory waiver of local government sovereign immunity when dealing with builders. 
• Sustainable Water Resources – Creation of a regional water supply partnership that will provide economical and feasible water supplies for the rapidly growing populations along the IH-35 and SH-130 corridors in Central Texas. 
• Marriott International Inc. – Legislation giving Bexar County the ability to set up a taxing district to fund a PGA Tour resort. 
• Health Care – Defeat of legislation that would have restricted or prohibited physicians from making referrals to facilities in which they had an ownership interest. 
• Land Development – Creation of new procedures for decertifying land from the requirements of an existing certificate of convenience and necessity, so the developer can switch to an alternative utility provider.
• Telecommunications – A provision that would have set up a statewide franchise agreement for telephone service providers and cable companies was stripped from the legislation.

The WCG Connection
WCG Government Experience
WCG Practice Approach
WCG Team and Representative Matters