Lawyers top list of campaign contributors

April 22, 2008

A legal newspaper out in Los Angeles, the Daily Journal, has a piece today about law firms’ political donations. (Hat tip to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog and a bow to former Daily Record-ite Lawrence Hurley, who wrote the DJ piece. Longtime readers will remember him as the one with the great British accent.)

According to the Law Blog, Hurley writes that lawyers are the biggest contributors to the campaigns of both Democratic presidential candidates and the second-biggest to Republican John McCain.

The post also mentions that lawyers at Baltimore’s own home-grown megafirm, DLA Piper, have given Clinton nearly half a million. Wow.

I wonder how other firms around here stack up, donation-wise. I sense a story one of these days…

CARYN TAMBER, Legal Affairs Writer

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