Alan J. Roth

Who is Alan J. Roth?

Alan J. Roth brings nearly 12 years of senior congressional staff

experience to his work in legislative and regulatory advocacy. Before

entering the private sector, he served as Staff Director and Chief

Counsel to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of

Representatives, from 1992 to 1994, and to the Committee’s Minority

from 1995 to January 1997. Alan was regularly listed by Roll Call, the

newspaper of Capitol Hill, as among the 50 most influential staff

members in Congress. Prior to assuming those management roles, he was

Counsel to the Committee from 1985 to 1992.

Clients draw on the knowledge and experience he obtained in the

consideration and enactment of legislation under the Energy and

Commerce Committee’s broad jurisdiction, which includes consumer

protection, energy, environmental, food and drug, health care,

securities, telecommunications, and trade law.

As the highest-ranking advisor to Rep. John D. Dingell (D-MI), who

chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee from 1981 to 1995 and

reassumed the chairmanship in January 2007, Mr. Roth was also Rep.

Dingell’s principal staff liaison with the Executive Branch, Democratic

and Republican Leaderships, and the other committees of the House and

Senate. In his current work, he maintains strong professional

relationships with Members and staff, Republican and Democrat, on the

House Appropriations, Budget, Energy and Commerce, Judiciary, Science,

Transportation, and Ways and Means Committees (and their Senate

counterparts), as well as with key Administration policymakers and

White House staff.

Alan merged his solo lobbying practice with the former Lent

Scrivner firm in March 2000 to form the new firm of Lent Scrivner

Roth LLC. Prior to opening his own office, Alan was a partner in Bryan

Cave LLP, one of the nation’s largest law firms. Before moving to

Washington in 1984, he was a practicing litigator in Connecticut. After

graduating in 1979 from New York University Law School, where he was

managing editor of the law review and a John Norton Pomeroy scholar, he

clerked for U.S. District Judge M. Joseph Blumenfeld, District of

Connecticut. He earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from American

University in Washington, where he has also taught courses in

government regulation and deregulation.