affiliate with an American firm
He wanted to affiliate with a U.S. firm because he needed expert advice in legal affairs.
The key is to affiliate with an established prepaid legal services program sufficiently expert to provide knowledgeable assistance on appropriate state regulations.
He said he wanted to affiliate with a U. S. firm because he needed "expert advice and counsel in legal affairs".
Those are the categories of value that we tend to associate or to affiliate with our other favorite writers, writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf, for example.