LaVigne Strategies
Where Strategy Meets Success.
Elevating Advocacy
With years of experience helping lead California's largest lobbying firm, Shane LaVigne brings unparalleled strategy, access, and understanding to every client's individual needs. LaVigne Strategies brings a boutique approach, the highest levels of professionalism, and success built on years of strong relationships to ensure your voice is heard.
Areas of practice
Public Safety Labor
Our Public Safety Labor practice area is dedicated to advocating for the pay, benefits and working conditions of law enforcement personnel in the State of California. We help empower public safety personnel to focus on what they do best—keeping our communities safe.
Insurance and Financial Services
LaVigne Strategies provides expert advocacy for insurers and financial institutions navigating California's complex regulatory and legislative landscape. We represent a range of clients facing significant challenges in the state. Our goal is to help them thrive in an evolving legislative and regulatory environment.
Energy
LaVigne Strategies helps clients navigate the complexities of energy policy and regulation in California, a leader in climate change policy. We actively shape legislative and regulatory developments and work closely with key decision-makers.
Employer Groups
The Employer Groups practice supports large employers and physician groups in California with employment law, licensing, and litigation challenges. With a proven track record, we help employers thrive in the world’s fifth-largest economy. Our focus is on empowering businesses to confront evolving legislative and regulatory challenges effectively.
Technology and Procurement
Our Technology and Procurement practice represents tech trade associations and clients before the California legislature and executive agencies. We also guide companies through California’s complex procurement processes within state government. Our goal is to help organizations implement effective procurement strategies by connecting them with the right people and resources.
Alcohol and Gaming
LaVigne Strategies brings extensive experience in navigating the complex legislative and regulatory landscape surrounding the alcohol and gaming industries. From advising on tied-house laws, alcohol sales and delivery, and legislation related to online and tribal gaming issues, the firm's experience and guidance helps clients thrive in these highly competitive and regulated sectors.
Shane Lavigne founder
Shane LaVigne is a seasoned advocate with over two decades of experience operating at the highest levels of politics and advocacy. Before founding LaVigne Strategies, he was a partner at California’s largest lobbying firm, where he led multiple key practices including Financial Services and Insurance and Business and Employer Representation.
Over his career, Shane has represented some of the largest national associations and companies before the California State Legislature and state agencies. His in-depth experience allows him to offer clients strategic government relations and public affairs services that deliver measurable results. Shane’s work includes helping clients with legislative and media strategies, enhancing their political operations, and raising their profiles. Shane has worked on several of California’s largest policy matters including representing gig economy companies and shaping policy conversations around the future of work, insurance reform, reforming California’s workers’ compensation system, and crafting legislation to diversify the state’s clean energy portfolio and advocating for climate change policies to protect the state from wildfires. Additionally, Shane has been a leading advocate in public safety labor and represents one of California’s largest law enforcement practices.
His background includes extensive involvement in various facets of California’s political process, where he has served as a political and fundraising consultant, Capitol staff member for then State Senator, now Congressman, Juan Vargas (D-San Diego), and legislative advocate at a boutique lobbying firm. All this experience allows Shane to provide clients with an incredibly comprehensive strategy and approach to advocacy.
In addition to his professional accomplishments, Shane has a strong educational background, holding a bachelor’s degree in Political Philosophy from Syracuse University – where he was also a scholarship athlete and member of the football team. Shane also holds a Juris Doctorate from Western Michigan University, and master’s degrees from Western Seminary. He is also deeply involved in his community, volunteering with the Prison Fellowship program at a maximum-security prison and serving as a volunteer hospital chaplain at a local hospital. Shane resides in Sacramento with his wife, Sarah, and their three children, Beau, Troy, and Ava.
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