Squire Patton hires transport policy expert

Former Legislative Counsel for the American Public Transportation Association, Patricia Doersch, has joined the US firm as Of Counsel.

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Patricia Doersch who most recently served as Legislative Counsel for the American Public Transportation Association, has joined Squire Patton Boggs as a member of the firm’s Transportation, Infrastructure and Local Government Public Policy practice, the law firm said in a statement on Monday.

She joins as Of Counsel and will be resident in Squire Patton Boggs’ Washington DC office.

In addition to her position at the APTA, where she advocated on behalf of 1,500 transit providers and private suppliers on Capitol Hill and at federal agencies, Doersch has also served as Majority Counsel for the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Highways and Transit Subcommittee. In that capacity she advanced Congressional priorities on highway funding, environmental streamlining and motor carrier safety.

Prior to that, Doersch also served as a lawyer for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), where she was the principal drafter of the FHWA’s bill reauthorising the federal-aid highway programme.

“Patty brings to Squire Patton Boggs a wealth of experience in shaping transportation policy and crafting legislation,” Squire Patton Boggs’ co-chair of the firm’s Transportation, Infrastructure and Local Government Public Policy group, Carolina Mederos, said.

“Her time on the Hill and with DOT [Department of Transportation] will be an asset for clients, who will benefit from an ‘insider’s’ perspective, coupled with in-depth knowledge of complicated federal transportation and infrastructure credit and debt financing policies and requirements,” Mederos added.

The addition of Doersch to the Squire Patton Boggs’ transportation and infrastructure group comes just a few months after the appointment of Mederos and Victoria Cram as co-chairs of the practice.

Mederos and Cram joined the firm in July shortly after the merger between Ohio-based Squire Sanders and Washington DC-based Patton Boggs. The merged entity now employs more than 1,500 lawyers in 44 offices across 21 countries.