Behind the camera-ready political candidates flooding the airwaves and hitting the campaign stops this election season is an army of political lawyers trying to ensure that their clients comply with an array of election and campaign finance laws. Richard Rios, a partner with Olson Hagel & Fishburn and the current president of the California Political Attorneys Association, recently spoke with The Recorder about all the legal work that goes on during the election season.
Tell me a little bit about the California Political Attorneys Association? You have campaign finance law, election law. A lot of our member-attorneys deal in open meetings and advise government agencies on Public Records Act requests. Even in such a small niche practice area there’s all kinds of smaller even more specialized areas of practice.
