After a record-setting year in lobby spend in Trenton—and as the battle for billions in COVID-19 federal relief dollars in Washington, D.C., intensifies and clients fight for their share—McCarter & English has again added to its government affairs practice.

On Tuesday the firm announced that Michael J. Maitland, former chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-New Jersey, will be joining the firm as an adviser to advance McCarter’s aggressive push to add government affairs work.