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Ms. Christensen focuses her practice on representing clients before the North Carolina General Assembly, where she spent six legislative sessions monitoring, evaluating, drafting, seeking, and opposing legislation in accordance with client needs. As a former in-house lobbyist for the North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association and the North Carolina League of Municipalities, she has experience advocating on behalf of businesses, local governments, and professional associations. Ms. Christensen has successfully secured state budget provisions and has had legislation introduced and enacted pertaining to business liability, state and local pension system reforms, vehicle registration, special elections, alcoholic beverage laws, government purchasing requirements, and 911 dispatch center redundancy. Ms. Christensen also is licensed to practice patent law before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. |