Romney, and 1 elsewhere) for a 44.4% contribution rate, 99% of them to Mr. (Its turnout rate may appear higher than other firms simply because of the easy of spelling the firm's name.) It has 234 attorneys according to NLJ, and I identified 104 attorneys who contributed (102 to Mr. And for some individuals whose names are misspelled, it may overstate the number of unique contributors.īut the firm that had by far the highest participation rate based on this methodology was Morgan & Morgan, an Orlando personal injury firm. But this probably underestimates the participation rates simply because of the self-reporting issue identified above-attorneys at some firms aren't included in their firm because of a misspelling. The median participation rate was around 11.2% at these firms. All firms but one had at least ten attorneys who contributed, and they are included below. I did the same with the top 100 of the NLJ350 firms. (That is, contributions to third-party candidates were excluded.) The percentage contributions are of contributions between Mr. This chart is limited to firms with at least 15 contributing attorneys.

The first chart, above, is the bulk of this research. (For reference, I used the same methodology and computer program that was used to examine political contributions of attorneys in government agencies.) Attempts were made to glean common misspellings or alternative ways of reporting an individual's or firm's name when aggregating totals. Self-titled 'attorneys' and 'lawyers' are included. As FEC data is self-reported, there is essentially no standardization in reporting. The data set includes firms that recorded ten or more attorneys who contributed to a candidate. I culled Federal Election Commission data from the 2012 presidential election.

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