Why Attend?
With the 2020 election season heating up, learn the rules that apply to interactions you or your clients may have with the government, including lobbying disclosure, campaign finance rules, and gift and ethics rules.
- Learn what “political law” is and why it matters to you and your clients
- Understand campaign finance laws and how they may affect your client’s organization
- Review the basics of lobbying disclosure laws
- Receive an overview of gift and ethics rules, and learn how they limit interactions with public officials—stay within the rules and avoid embarrassing mistakes
- Recognize outside interest groups and how they try to restrict political activity
With politics playing an ever greater role in business and life in general, this seminar provides a timely opportunity to learn about political law—what it is and why it matters. With the 2020 election just around the corner, it is important to understand how you and your client can be involved in the political process. Ron Jacobs and Jim Tyrrell, both frequent speakers and authors on campaign finance and lobbying regulation issues, will help you understand campaign finance laws and how they affect your organization or your client’s organization. Learn the basics of lobbying disclosure laws, review gift and ethics rules and how they limit interactions with public officials, and understand how outside interest groups try to restrict political activity.
Topics to be covered include:
- Why Political Law Matters
- Maze of different laws
- Important to engage
- Legal, reputational, and public relations risks to consider
- Usually a way to do what you want, but must take the right steps
- Campaign Finance Law
- Federal contribution limits to candidates
- Setting up and using a federal political action committee (PAC)
- State contribution rules—comparing Virginia’s “permit but disclose” system to other states
- What is a Super PAC, who uses them, and why?
- Lobbying Disclosure Laws
- Who has to register as a lobbyist at the federal level?
- What reports are required for registrants?
- How do the state lobbying disclosure laws work?
- Gift and Ethics Rules
- Limits on gifts to federal officials
- Common exemptions to allow for interactions
- State gift laws
- Corporate Disclosure Rules
- Shareholder efforts to force disclosure
- Transparency rankings by third-party groups
- Staying ahead of the curve
| Registration Deadlines: |
| Webcast: |
10 minutes prior to seminar. If you register for a webcast the day of the seminar, your e-mail receipt will include a link to launch the seminar and download the materials. |
| Telephone: |
Online registration ends at 11:59 p.m. the day preceding the seminar
Call (800) 979-8253 to register up to one hour prior to the seminar |
| Live on Site: |
Online registration ends at 11:59 p.m. the day preceding the seminar
Walk-in registration is permitted on a space-available basis |
Cancellation Policy: Cancellation/transfer requests will be honored until 5:00 p.m. the day preceding the seminar. You will, however, be charged $40 if you cancel or transfer your registration to a different seminar after the link to the materials has been e-mailed by Virginia CLE.
Full refunds or transfers are available up to two days after a webcast in the unlikely event that you experience technical difficulties.
MCLE Credit Caveat: The MCLE Board measures credits by the time you spend in attendance. If you enter a seminar late or leave it early, or both, you must reflect those adjustments accurately in the credits you report on your credit reporting form. A code will be given at the end of the seminar, which must be written on your MCLE form.
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