Next week in DC is the Republican National Lawyers Association Conference, should be a good event. According to Jonathan Martin at The Politico “The Big Three” all have events planned for their own Lawyer groups.

Lawyers for Rudy:

Rudy is hosting a free event at the Willard Continetal Hotel. The group is being hosted (and I assume led) by former Solicitor General Ted Olson, a huge supporter of Rudy’s.

Lawyers for McCain

Surprisingly the Straight Talk Express will hold its Lawyers for McCain event at the law offices of Greenberg Traurig. Recognize the name? McCain does from his Abramoff Investigations:

In one case, Abramoff and partner Michael Scanlon hired a former lifeguard, David Grosh, to head a group billed as an international think tank — the American International Center — to receive payments.

Abramoff and Scanlon used that think tank and other tax-exempt groups to steer the money from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and other tribes, according to documents released by the committee.

McCain said American International paid a total of $840,000 in 2002 to Greenberg Traurig, the law and lobbying firm where Abramoff worked, making it the firm's fifth largest lobbying client.

(I am sorry, but this really leaves me wondering about the Straight Talk Express)

Despite this, some big names will be at the event:

…Peter Wallison and A.B. Culvahouse, both of whom served as Counsel to Reagan, Nixon son-in-law/almost-HRC Senate opponent Edward Cox, former FEC Chair/campaign finance guru Trevor Potter and powerhouse communications attorney/ex-Nixon FCC chairman Dick Wiley of Wiley, Rein & Fielding (current White House Counsel Fred Fielding's firm).

Lawyers for Romney

Romney will hold his event at Hogan and Hartson. His cohost will include Cardenas, Comstock, Ginsberg, Norcross, Sekulow and Spies and a few others.

Later on Team Mitt will be hosting a Young Professionals for Mitt gathering. Martin gives us the scoop on this too:

On Tuesday, Team Mitt sends Political Director and former NRCC spokesman Carl Forti down from Boston to rally a group of Young Professionals for Romney over an Italian dinner. Brad Card, Andy's brother and a lobbyist with the Dutko Group, is pulling together Hill folks and Drew Maloney, another lobbyist and former Tom DeLay aide, is working the K St crowd.

Organizers expect between 30-40 people, mostly from the lobbying side. The purpose is four-fold: To get all up-and-coming Republicans on Mitt's message; to start growing the group and find some guys and gals in their 20s and 30s who could do take some time off to do grassroots work at, say, an Ames Straw Poll; to tap into the various policy expertise found in the group; and to find some who would be willing to put on low-dollar fundraisers with their peers.

No doubt it will be an interesting week in DC.