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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: american-association-for-justice.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $87.9M in expenses.
GOV · 1 client
69 filings
$86.7M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 1 client
67 filings
$84.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
64 filings
$82.4M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU · 1 client
59 filings
$76.5M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
54 filings
$67M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
52 filings
$70.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
52 filings
$61.7M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
50 filings
$68.4M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 1 client
50 filings
$63.9M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
45 filings
$62.2M 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 money 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.
39 filings1 client · through 2020
Daniel Mark Hinkle34 filings1 client · through 2026
John Robert BowmanCovered position: Chief of Staff; Reps. L. Richardson, Wass.-Schultz33 filings1 client · through 2018
Bonnie Christine Johnston27 filings1 client · through 2023
Victor Imani Diaz25 filings1 client · through 2026
Charlotte Chinnery25 filings1 client · through 2022
Christine Chen Zinner21 filings1 client · through 2024
Andrew Rogers20 filings1 client · through 2018
Brian McmillanCovered position: Law Clerk; Sen. Cantwell16 filings1 client · through 2021
KEVIN HAGAN jr14 filings1 client · through 2024
Ivanna Yang14 filings1 client · through 2016
Heather Katrina SagerCovered position: Rep. Cheri Bustos - Deputy Chief of Staff13 filings1 client · through 2026
Jacqueline Frances Kappler13 filings1 client · through 2018
Jennie Rasmussen11 filings1 client · through 2013
Elizabeth Schuster9 filings1 client · through 2025
Molly CareyCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director-Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18)9 filings1 client · through 2025
Patrick G Celestine9 filings1 client · through 2021
Arya Hariharan9 filings1 client · through 2015
Justice EstradaCovered position: Senator Charles Schumer, Intern; Senator Dianne Feinstein, Legislative Correspondent8 filings1 client · through 2026
Theodore NastaseCovered position: Senate Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Planning, Senator Gary Peters, Intern8 filings1 client · through 2026
Elisabeth SteinCovered position: Couns.; Rep. H. Johnson; Cts & Comp. Subcomm.8 filings1 client · through 2013
Charlotte Mcbirney7 filings1 client · through 2026
Earl Scott FloodCovered position: Legal fellow & Policy aide; Sen. McCaskill7 filings1 client · through 2020
Zoe OreckCovered position: Intern; Sen. Landrieu7 filings1 client · through 2016
Jill BurkeCovered position: Leg. Ass't. Rep. Stark; Commun. Dir. Rep. Filner7 filings1 client · through 2010
Covered positions · 20 of 47 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
