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Kellen Company Webinar Series
May 2007
“The New Balance of Power in Washington”
How the latest developments in government affairs and public policy can affect professional and trade associations.
Join Art Sackler for information you cannot afford to miss. Mr. Sackler will review the essential building blocks for an effective program, including information on:
- How the shift in balance of power affects an association's need to be on top of what is happening in Washington, and how it impacts strategies to pursue
- Lobbying fundamentals during a change in a majority
- Leveraging and building relationships on the Hill
- Researching legislation and policy preferences that may support or hinder your issues
- Identifying Committees and Subcommittees that could impact your industry
- Effectively representing your interests before the U.S. Congress, federal regulatory agencies, the European Union, and other legislative and regulatory bodies
- And, much more
Download the presentation (pdf)
Featured Speaker
Arthur B. Sackler, JD, LLM
Senior Counsel, Government Affairs, Kellen Company
Arthur B. Sackler is the former Vice President of Law and Public Policy at Time Warner, where he successfully engaged Capitol Hill and numerous federal agencies in a wide variety of legislative and regulatory matters. At Time Warner, he served on the federal government’s Industry Sector Advisory Committee on Services, was a manager of Intellectual Property (IP) issues in the Transatlantic Business Dialogue and served on the Federal Trade Commission’s Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security. Mr. Sackler has extensive experience formulating and executing effective strategies at the federal level, combined with knowledge and experience at the state level, with international organizations, and with government operations and procedures abroad in general. He was a private sector member of the U.S. delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization Diplomatic Conference, which negotiated digital copyright treaties. An attorney, Mr. Sackler has also earned an LL.M. from Georgetown University.