The Law Offices of William R. Ralls, P.C. provides administrative law and government affairs services to a variety of business and trade association clients. The firm offers services as legal counsel and government affairs counselor, with the Arizona legislature, Arizona Corporation Commission, local and state regulatory agencies in Arizona and Michigan, and state public utility commissions throughout the United States. The firm has worked with local, state, and federal officials in the successful settlement of complex regulatory legal issues for forty years. Government regulatory involvement has included a variety of industries including public utility, construction, technology, telecommunications, energy, water and sewer, transportation, and healthcare industries.

Bill Ralls has conducted many seminars on government contracts and administration and government relations for public officials and business leaders. He has also been invited as a guest speaker for bar associations, corporations, law schools and trade associations. He has taught administrative law, utility law and constitutional law as an Adjunct Professor at Michigan State Law School and Cooley Law School for many years.

The firm was founded in 1979 with the mission to assist public and business leaders to make the government bureaucracy work for business clients. The firm has enjoyed great success in facilitating economic growth for business clients utilizing a co-counsel approach with national law firms and corporate counsel worldwide. The firm has significant experience in government contract procurement and administration, and has consistent success with a team approach in the resolution of bid controversies, contract administration, and settlement of construction claims.

Bill Ralls is a former gubernatorial appointed state public utility commissioner . He is an attorney at law admitted to practice in Arizona and Michigan. He is Commissioner Emeritus of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissions and provides utility consulting with state utility commissions throughout the United States. He currently serves as a board member on the Advisory Council of the Thunderbird School of Global Business in Glendale, Arizona, and is a Class Agent of the Harvard Law School. He was educated at Yale University and the Harvard Law School.

AREAS 0F PRACTICE

• Government Affairs and Regulatory Practice
• Government Procurement, Contracts and Construction Claim
• Arizona Corporation Commission

INDUSTRY SPECIALITIES

• Public Utilities
• Energy and the Environment
• Technology and Telecommunications
• Transportation and Infrastructure
• Water and Sewer
• Health Care