How fulcrum helps

you champion regulatory reform. we support you.

Fulcrum Foundation exists to help state regulatory and permitting reform succeed. In addition to designing and improving state regulatory reform efforts, there are a variety of additional ways in which Fulcrum can help you achieve success.

These include

  • Drafting Legislation and Executive Orders

  • Hiring a Team

  • Working with Career Staff

  • Obtaining Stakeholder Input

  • Navigating the Regulatory Process

  • Promoting the Result

See details on our support below

Drafting Legislation and Executive Orders




The ALEC model bills on regulatory reform and permitting improvement offer a great starting point, but your regulatory reform initiative will obviously need to be tailored to fit your state. Fulcrum’s leadership team has drafted over 800 pieces of legislation across a wide array of states.

If you’re considering introducing a regulatory reform bill or executive order, Fulcrum leadership can provide insights from other states to help you select the exact elements that you want. It can then help you write a law that will ensure long-term success.

Hiring a Team




Fulcrum’s leadership team collectively has dozens of years of experience working in federal and state government. They are actively involved in prominent organizations such as the Federalist Society, the American Law Institute, and the Administrative Conference of the United States. They know some of the most prominent people in the regulatory reform space and can draw upon deep networks in Washington, DC and across the state capitals.

If you recently started a regulatory reform initiative and are looking to hire a director or staff, Fulcrum can help you write position descriptions. It can then advertise open positions and conduct extensive outreach in order to identify a slate of top-flight candidates.

Working with Career Staff

If managed properly, career staff can be trusted partners in, rather than opponents of, regulatory reform. The success of Virginia’s reforms depended critically upon the buy-in of career staff, as evidenced by the fact that many agencies went well beyond the 25% target. Setting clear goals, providing appropriate resources and training, and establishing proper incentives ensures that career staff buy in to the initiative and not only cooperate but also proactively advance reforms.

Fulcrum leadership can draw upon its experience in Virginia as well as knowledge of successful reform initiatives in other states to help you design an approach that will produce that buy-in. It can also provide training for career staff on any aspect of regulatory or permitting reform.

Obtaining Stakeholder Input

Successful regulatory reform depends critically upon the buy-in of key stakeholder groups. In Virginia, most reforms produced little to no pushback. But a handful proved controversial, requiring modification of the initial proposal.

Fulcrum Foundation leadership can draw upon its intimate familiarity with Virginia’s reform effort, as well as its knowledge of reform efforts in other states, to help state reformers assess which reforms are likely to sail through and which might create controversy. It can also draw upon its rich network of industry and trade group contacts to help obtain initial reactions on how specific reforms are likely to be received. And once your state decides to move forward with a reform, it can help build stakeholder coalitions that will ensure that it succeeds.

Navigating the Regulatory Process

Once you have settled on a regulatory change, you then must navigate a lengthy process to see it through to completion. Your state’s Administrative Procedure Act (APA) will dictate the process you need to follow. Agencies often add steps beyond the minimum requirements of the APA, causing the regulatory process to drag out for years or even decades.

Fulcrum’s leadership team includes two prominent regulatory lawyers who have worked at the highest levels of federal and state governments. They are intimately familiar with state APAs and can help you navigate the regulatory process with minimal delays and roadblocks.

Promoting the Result

Once you have settled on a regulatory change, you then must navigate a lengthy process to see it through to completion. Your state’s Administrative Procedure Act (APA) will dictate the process you need to follow. Agencies often add steps beyond the minimum requirements of the APA, causing the regulatory process to drag out for years or even decades.

Fulcrum’s leadership team includes two prominent regulatory lawyers who have worked at the highest levels of federal and state governments. They are intimately familiar with state APAs and can help you navigate the regulatory process with minimal delays and roadblocks.