Attorney Owolabi M. Salis is responsible for an ever-growing roster of government projects. These projects include those for local, national, and international governments. It’s an area of particular focus for the multi-award-winning New York attorney at law.
The Brooklyn-based attorney owns Salis Law, a legal firm in the heart of New York. Silas has over three decades of hands-on experience practicing law. That’s in addition to accounting, financing, and general consulting. A sustaining member of the New York State Bar Association, he’s an established authority on what’s known as grassroots governance.
The attorney and his team at Silas Law advise governments worldwide on the development of grassroots governance practices. These grassroots governance practices focus on numerous areas, including bridging the gaps between politicians and the public.
What Is Grassroots Governance?
According to Owolabi Salis, grassroots governance—also known as grassroots democracy—centers around shifting political processes and decision-making responsibilities to more public or public-adjacent levels. The practice follows a similar school of thought to other grassroots or grassroots-type organizations in non-governmental fields.
Whether within government or elsewhere, these organizations can have varying structures at their core. Such arrangements usually rest on the type of organization – chiefly civilian or governmental. They can also depend on what an organization’s membership wants. One example is a non-hierarchical structure.
Non-hierarchical structures are typically collectively run by all of an organization’s members. Alternatively, members may appoint an individual member to run operations on their collective behalf on an otherwise non-hierarchical basis.
Grassroots Organization Within Government
Attorney Salis’s approach to grassroots democracy takes the same strategy outlined above but within a governmental setting. He explains that, in this instance, decision-making powers become the domain of the many rather than the few.
The principle is that democratic power is more effective in the hands of, for example, members of local communities. That’s as opposed to those exclusively at the top of an organization. In this case, that’s a government or affiliated government body. It’s a practice with some similarities to so-called representative systems.
However, grassroots systems differ from other so-called representative systems in numerous areas. The main difference is that grassroots systems exist solely within a community rather than at national or international levels. In a governmental sense, grassroots systems are also what’s known as participatory rather than representative.
Salis’s work within grassroots governance forms part of his efforts to improve service relations alongside governments worldwide. That includes the delivery of focused guidance directly to government clients and, where necessary, the public.
Salis Law
Owolabi Salis and Salis Law perform consulting services for local, national, and international governments and various other global institutions. Consulting services performed by the attorney and his team include agreed-upon procedures, compliance services, general consulting, and independence services.
They work tirelessly to advance government interests in numerous areas. These areas include executing jobs and terms of reference, providing legal and consulting services, and undertaking agreed-upon procedures.
Elsewhere, the multi-award-winning New York attorney at law is on hand to defend government interests and prosecute cases on their behalf. He is also a go-to source of consultancy and contract services focused on realizing targeted governmental objectives.