- Obama Scoring Big in DC
The Legal Times summarizes today the campaign cash flow coming from the capitol’s highest-grossing firms, and Obama is out-fundraising McCain by a wide margin. Interestingly, Obama has far surpassed the total raised by the Kerry-Edwards ticket in 2004, even though the now-disgraced Edwards was a legendary trial lawyer who was known to get much of his support from lawyers. Kerry got $936,000 from DC’s 20 highest-grossing firms by this point in ‘04, while Obama has raised $1.5 million. McCain has gotten about $450,000, which is roughly on par with the $483,000 Bush got during the same period of the last election.
The article mentions Bryan Cave and Williams & Connolly as generous Obama givers, and reports that employees at plaintiffs’ shops Baron & Budd, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll have given more to Obama than they did to Kerry. One of the biggest lawyers backing McCain is perennial Lawdragon 500 member Richard Wiley of Wiley Rein, the former FCC chair who has a blockbuster communications practice. Wiley has bundled $250,000 for McCain.
--Daily Dragon
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