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
Every client this registrant has billed a fee to represent, by fees reported.
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: spiegel-mcdiarmid-llp.
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 $1.8M in fees and $0 in expenses.
COM · 2 clients
13 filings
Utilities
UTI · 1 client
8 filings
$10K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 2 clients
3 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.
14 filings
1 client · through 2026
Tillman L. Lay14 filings2 clients · through 2022
M Gloria TristaniCovered position: Commissioner, Federal Communications Comm.8 filings3 clients · through 2009
Mark S Hegedus5 filings2 clients · through 2008
Jeffrey Michael Bayne4 filings2 clients · through 2026
Thomas C Trauger4 filings1 client · through 2010
Robert A Jablon2 filings1 client · through 2009
Covered positions · 2 of 12 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.
