Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: american-bar-association.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
BUD
68 filings
$15.7M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
68 filings
$15.7M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
67 filings
$15.4M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
66 filings
$15.2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
64 filings
$14.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
63 filings
$14.5M on those filings
Education
EDU
61 filings
$14M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
58 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
54 filings
$12.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
52 filings
$11.8M on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
118th Congress
Supreme Court Ethics Act.
8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 325118th CongressSupreme Court Ethics Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 359118th CongressSupreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 567118th CongressRichard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1814117th CongressCivics Secures Democracy Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 546117th CongressEffective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 879117th CongressCivics Secures Democracy Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.J.Res. 35116th CongressProposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women.8 filingsthrough 2020
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Holly O'Grady CookAmerican Bar Association
58 filingsthrough 2026
David EppsteinAmerican Bar AssociationCovered position: Counsel, House Comm. on Financial Services49 filingsthrough 2026
Jared D HessAmerican Bar Association34 filingsthrough 2018
Edward Bruce NicholsonAmerican Bar Association28 filingsthrough 2016
Hayden GregoryAmerican Bar Association25 filingsthrough 2015
Chris J. KatopisChris KatopisCovered position: Senior Legal Advisor, USPTO, DoC; Director of Congressional Relations, USPTO; House Judiciary Committee Counsel.24 filingsthrough 2026
Ann CarmichaelAmerican Bar Association20 filingsthrough 2015
James Michael O'NeillAmerican Bar AssociationCovered position: Counsel & Legis. Dir., Rep. Chris Collins; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Darrell Issa; Legis. Corresp., Rep. Jim Saxton; Intern, Rep. John Sullivan19 filingsthrough 2025
James Aloysius HoganAmerican Bar AssociationCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Paul Broun- Legislative Director, Sen. James Inhofe- General Counsel, Sen. Chuck Hagel- Legislative Director, Rep. Joe Knollenberg- Counsel, House Committee on Resources- Assistant Counsel, Senate Committee on Rules17 filingsthrough 2020
Kirra JarrattAmerican Bar Association13 filingsthrough 2013
Kira M. AlvarezVizcaya Trade Strategies12 filingsthrough 2020
Christina EnnisAmerican Bar Association10 filingsthrough 2026
Lillian GaskinAmerican Bar Association8 filingsthrough 2010
Julie M StrandlieAmerican Bar Association8 filingsthrough 2010
Eric StoreyAmerican Bar Association7 filingsthrough 2020
Kerry LawrenceAmerican Bar Association3 filingsthrough 2008
Ellen McbarnetteAmerican Bar Association2 filingsthrough 2008
Christina BroeckaertAmerican Bar Association1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 4 of 23 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
