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: thompson-coburn-llp.
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.
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 $22.3M in fees and $0 in expenses.
TRA · 6 clients
125 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 7 clients
73 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 5 clients
60 filings
$890K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 5 clients
52 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 4 clients
48 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 4 clients
44 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 3 clients
43 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 6 clients
42 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 6 clients
33 filings
$720K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 4 clients
31 filings
$420K 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.
James M Burger80 filings8 clients · through 2020
James A. ConwayCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Congressman Stephen F. Lynch64 filings13 clients · through 2026
Kristin M. SmithCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff and Appropriations Assistant, Rep. Denny Rehberg; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Olympia Snowe; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Conrad Burns38 filings8 clients · through 2018
Charles Kyle Simpson33 filings5 clients · through 2021
G Kent Woodman25 filings3 clients · through 2012
Elisa H Greenberg22 filings7 clients · through 2022
Tressel C. Stone18 filings6 clients · through 2026
John Cullerton5 filings1 client · through 2021
Anthony Anderson5 filings3 clients · through 2008
Katherine Gehringer4 filings2 clients · through 2008
Timothy Sullivan3 filings1 client · through 2016
Christopher T BondCovered position: United States Senator Missouri3 filings1 client · through 2016
C. Jonathan Benner3 filings1 client · through 2015
Robert Shapiro2 filings1 client · through 2010
Warren L Dean2 filings2 clients · through 2008
Haley E ShusterCovered position: Staff Assistant, Hon. Shuster1 filing1 client · through 2013
David Straus1 filing1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 7 of 23 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.
1 filing
through 2025
Stmicroelectronics, Nv
Switzerland
1 filing
through 2013
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
