Partner Neil Reiff will discuss the future of PACs and Party Committees at a conference themed ‘Political Law After Citizens United – Understanding Major Changes for Campaigning and Lobbying.’  The conference, sponsored by West LegalEdCenter, will be held on July 22, 2010, at the JW Marriott in Washington, DC.

For more information, or to register, visit the Legal EdCenter’s Website.

Neil Reiff discusses the implications of Speechnow.org v Federal Elections Commission in a published comment in JURIST.  In the comment, Mr. Reiff examines the momentum of recent campaign finance decisions and forecasts the impact of recent decisions on the changing political landscape.

Mr. Reiff writes, “The Speechnow.org decision (which also upheld political committee reporting requirements for independent expenditure committees) will bring more independent spending into the light by inducing committees to avoid the subterfuges of “issue advocacy” while subjecting their activity to the reporting regime of federal campaign finance law.”

Read the full comment here.

In “Beware the Fortunetellers” Mr. Sandler and Mr. Reiff discuss the fallout of last week’s Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United v. FEC.  The authors argue that although the ruling will have vast implications for the future of campaign finance, that future is not as written in stone as many pundits would have the general public believe.