Former Rep. Larry LaRocco, D-Idaho, has joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a policy director in its government relations group. He will focus on financial services and natural resources projects.

LaRocco arrives from running his own firm, LaRocco and Associates. From 1991 to 1995, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Idaho's first district. During LaRocco's two terms, he was the deputy majority whip and a member of the Speaker's Working Group. He served on both the Financial Services and Natural Resources Committees.

After leaving Congress, LaRocco was vice chairman and president for Fleishman-Hillard Government Relations in Washington and later president of Neokinetics Corporation, a behavioral biometrics software security company.