Bricker Graydon is pleased to present a refresher on Ohio ethics laws, campaign finance compliance, and a presentation from the Ohio Secretary of State about the Secretary’s public integrity division, which was created in...more
Under new joint guidance issued by the U.S. House Committee on Ethics, Committee on House Administration, and Communications Standards Commission, Members of the U.S. House of Representatives may officially co-sponsor certain...more
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics has issued a “Dear Colleague” Letter, and the U.S. House Committee on Ethics has issued a Pink Sheet advisory, reminding Members and staff of the rules applicable to attending events...more
On April 2, 2024, the Georgia State Senate sent Senate Bill 368, which creates a state law version of the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) for the State of Georgia, to Governor Brian Kemp for his signature. The...more
Legislative lobbyists and legislative lobbyist employers in Kentucky are required to file monthly lobbying disclosures for periods covering January through April, and then every four months thereafter covering the rest of the...more
Our panelists will provide a series of presentations covering Ohio's ethics and campaign finance laws. Topics include recent advisory opinions, election trends, and legislative ethics updates in preparation for the upcoming...more
During the Ohio Ethics Commission's first meeting of 2024, the Commission reviewed staff reports on its activity in 2023. Ohio Ethics Commission staff issued 163 written opinions to provide guidance on complying with Ohio...more
In its 2022 Annual Report, the Ohio Ethics Commission provides statistics and lists on several of the Commission’s activities for the year including a breakdown of the top five categories for investigations last year....more
On January 18, the New York Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government (COELIG) launched a new online ethics training. Previously, only Individual Lobbyists were required to complete training. Now, all Individual...more
Opinion Contains Several Important Caveats - On May 20, 2022, the Ohio Ethics Commission issued an advisory opinion, Inf. Adv. Op. No. 2022-INF-0520 (Lecklider), in response to a local government’s questions about...more
On May 4, Vermont enacted its first statutory Code of Ethics. The Code will take effect July 1, 2022, and applies to all public servants[1] in Vermont. The Code identifies baseline ethics rules regarding gifts to public...more
A federal judge has held that Pennsylvania’s Rule 8.4(g),1 which subjects lawyers to professional discipline for engaging in discriminatory conduct, violates both the free speech clause of the First Amendment and the due...more
Increasingly popular online “lead generation” services offering to connect attorneys with potential mass tort plaintiffs may expose counsel to ethics violations, the New Jersey Advisory Committee on Professional Conduct...more
Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance,...more
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics (“JCOPE”) released proposed rulemaking to clarify its lobbying regulations, as published in the New York State Register on July 15, 2020. This comes a few months after releasing the...more
ethikos 34, no. 8 (August 2020) - The United States Small Business Association (SBA) scrapped a requirement that had loan seekers undergo an ethics review before obtaining funds from the Payment Protection Program (PPP)....more
Below, please find a summary of notable political law developments in New York, Texas and the city of Los Angeles. New York State Reduces Contribution Limits Beginning in November 2022 - Late last year, the New York...more
On Jan. 3, 2019, a litigation team consisting of Rich Benenson, Doug Friednash and Joshua Weiss from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck succeeded in an appeal challenging the jurisdiction of Colorado’s Independent Ethics...more
New York State’s first-ever Comprehensive Lobbying Regulations were approved by the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) and will take full effect on January 1, 2019. The new regulations incorporate and...more
At the April 24, 2018 meeting of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (“JCOPE”) -- the regulator of state and local lobbying activities in the State of New York -- the agency unanimously adopted the state’s first-ever...more