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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Torts
TOR
75 filings
$3.9M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 186110th CongressAttorney-Client Privilege Protection Act of 200713 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3013110th CongressAttorney-Client Privilege Protection Act of 200712 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1508111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Alexander DahlStrategic Policy Counsel PLLCCovered position: Deputy Staff Director and Senior Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; Senior Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee36 filingsthrough 2026
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: lawyers-for-civil-justice.
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.
9 filings
through 2010
S. 537111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2449110th CongressSunshine in Litigation Act of 20089 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2450110th CongressA bill to amend the Federal Rules of Evidence to address the waiver of the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine.9 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5503111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4115111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1504111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5884110th CongressSunshine in Litigation Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1638110th CongressFederal Judicial Salary Restoration Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2949110th CongressMark O. Hatfield Scholarship and Excellence in Tribal Governance Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2950110th CongressHelping HANDS for Autism Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 445111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
12 filingsthrough 2011
Barry Henry BaumanLawyers for Civil JusticeCovered position: Executive Director11 filingsthrough 2010
ALFRED CORTESE jrLawyers for Civil JusticeCovered position: Outside Counsel1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
