The lobby lobby's annual seminar is next month, featuring seminars on how to act while trying to sell lawmakers on a particular position or bit of legislation.

The Professional Advocacy Association of Texas' Ethics Compliance Institute is on Friday, September 15 in Austin, and lawyers get CLE credit. They and everybody else gets the latest on how to go about the business of lobbying without running afoul of the state's ethics laws and various legal interpretations of the rules. They're starting off with the Abramoff scandal (it's titled "The Seven Stages of Grief"), clicking through Texas rules, legislative tricks, law, litigation and all that. The keynote speaker is U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, whose district includes the Pink Building in downtown Austin. Get details at their website [1].