In this 90-minute audioconference, Cleta Mitchell - the leading legal authority on HLOGA - explains what reporting is required with HLOGA, plus specific steps you can take immediately to pull your practices and staff into worry-free compliance. Step by step, you'll learn how to audit-proof every aspect of how lobbying information is gathered, recorded, certified and reported.
Order the CD and Transcript for your entire team and get the right answers to crucial questions you MUST answer.
- What do HLOGA reporting rules require?
- What specific information must be gathered to prepare and file the required reports -- and how do requirements differ for firms and individual lobbyists?
- Who should maintain the records and certify and sign the reports?
- What steps must firms that employ lobbyists take to avoid liability for individual lobbyists' separate recordkeeping and reporting?
- How should firms, companies, and associations educate non-lobbyist employees to ensure enterprise-wide compliance with HLOGA's gift rules?
- What records will make it easier to comply with audit provisions?
- What is the relationship between IRS reporting and lobbying reports?
Listen to audio clips from our last HLOGA Best Practices Conference.
Codes and Issues boxes
List of New Revisions
Lobbying Expenditures New Process.mp3
Meet Your Instructor
Cleta Mitchell, partner at Foley and Lardner is one of the nation's leading authorities on The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007. Ms. Mitchell has more than 30 years of experience in law, politics and public policy. She advises lobbying firms, law firms, corporations, nonprofit organizations, candidates, campaigns, and individuals on state and federal election and campaign finance law, and compliance issues related to lobbying, ethics and financial disclosure. Ms. Mitchell practices before the Federal Election Commission and similar federal and state enforcement agencies.
Who Will Benefit
This audioconference offers essential guidance for lobbyists, lobbying firms, law firms with lobbying arms, and government relations/lobbying personnel, including:
- Directors of Government Relations (Corporation or Association)
- Registered Lobbyists
- Lobbying Firm Registration Managers
- Law Firm Training Managers