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The GAP Committee will be holding two events during the Section Fall Meeting November 20-21 in Washington, D.C.
GAP Committee Meeting: Friday, November 20, 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m., Salon IIIA, Ballroom Level, Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C.
GAP Committee CLE: New Developments in Lobbying and Campaign Finance Laws Friday, November 20, 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Salon IIIA, Ballroom Level, Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. Our distinguished speakers are: Jan Witold Baran from Wiley Rein, LLP; Steven Dover from the Capital Hill Group and Cleta Mitchell from Foley & Lardner, LLP.
Click Here  for the complete Committee Meeting Agenda.
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The Government Affairs Practice Committee ("GAP Committee") is a professional committee for federal, state and provincial lobbyists and other government affairs practitioners, both in-house and in private practice.
The focus of the GAP Committee is to provide resources, networking opportunities and a forum to discuss issues related to the lobbying profession. The GAP Committee provides programming on best practices and issues confronting the government affairs professional within a corporation, a law firm, a trade association, a non-profit organization or a government agency. The GAP Committee is a source of information and information exchange about current rules and regulations on the lobbying profession, a forum for discussion of proposed changes to those rules and regulations, and a source of information generally to its members and to other substantive committees of the Business Law Section on emerging policy issues pertaining to lobbying and government affairs.
The GAP Committee held its first formal meeting at the 2009 ABA Annual Meeting. On an ongoing basis, the GAP Committee will meet at the Section's Annual Meeting, at the Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C. and perhaps in the future at a stand-alone meeting.
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The newly formed Government Affairs Practice Committee of the ABA Business Law Section is accpeting articles for its next newsletter which will be sent in January 2010. Potential topics for articles include recent developments in campaign finance, election and lobbying laws as well as legislative developments in substantive areas such as health care, climate change, etc.
In addition, we are looking for state by state updates of recent developments in your state which might be of interest. For these update articles, we are requesting shorter pieces of one to two paragraphs.
Please send your articles via email to jknapp@winthrop.com.
If you have any questions with respect to our newsletter, please contact me directly.
Thanks in advance for your support of the Government Affairs Practice Committee Newsletter.
Best wishes,
John A. Knapp
Editor, Government Affairs Practice Committee Newsletter
Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.
Minneapolis, MN
jknapp@winthrop.com
www.winthrop.com
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Increased Regulation of Lobbying and Other Political Activities
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The GAP Committee held a very successful CLE session during the ABA Annual Meeting on Monday August 3 entitled Lobbying Ethics: Regulation of Lobbying and Other Political Activities.
Three speakers---Jan Baran, Cleta Mitchell and Peter Christianson--examined the emerging trend of increased restrictions on lobbying activity and campaign finance. An online version of this CLE will be available soon.
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