Lobbying Disclosure, Lobby Registration and Reporting
At Ward & Lawless, our partners have extensive experience with federal, state and local lobby registration and reporting.
Lobby Registration and Reporting:
- Prepare and maintain individual and/or company registrations, amendments, and terminations when you need them done within the period prescribed by law.
- Track lobbyist ethics training requirements.
- Create jurisdiction-specific questionnaires for your registered and/or responsible individuals in order to draft the required reports and create a due diligence record. These can be for your own use, or we can set up a system whereby we query and follow-up directly.
- Draft the required reports based on questionnaire responses or review filings you draft. We can also provide jurisdiction-specific filing instructions, such as online access or address and phone number and whether a due date refers to a postmark or “received by” deadline.
- Arrange for and forward any applicable filing fees on your behalf.
- Establish and monitor corporate and/or individual gift tracking and review programs.
- Provide back-up files of documents required for your record retention purposes.
- Provide filing calendars and send reminders for the jurisdictions in which you and/or your lobbyists are required to file.