ATTY as FEC employer text: $12.6 million

An abbreviation, not a bar census

FEC forms store ATTY when that is what the filer typed — a common shortening of attorney. LobbyVault ranks that abbreviation separately from the spelled-out ATTORNEY row, which is far larger in dollars. The $12,586,849 total is itemized individual gifts whose grouped employer text is ATTY. It is not a state-bar membership file and not a NAICS 5411 rollup. Those 731 people and 27,764 lines are the ATTY grouping only. Those 731 people and 27,764 lines are the ATTY grouping only.

People who typed ATTORNEY, LAWYER, SELF/ATTORNEY, or a firm name such as KIRKLAND & ELLIS sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode ATTY into ATTORNEY.

731 donors and 27,764 lines

731 unique donors produced 27,764 ATTY contribution lines totaling $12,586,849. That is on the order of 38 itemized receipts per person. Dollars per unique donor run high relative to some wider legal-title rows. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Unitemized gifts never appear. Law-firm PAC filings are other documents unless an individual receipt itself carries this abbreviation.

Legal-title siblings

ATTORNEY, LAWYER, SELF/ATTORNEY, and KIRKLAND & ELLIS are separate keys. Combining them with ATTY would mix spellings and a partnership name. This page stays at $12,586,849 for ATTY only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the abbreviation. Some later receipts expand ATTY to ATTORNEY; those later receipts leave this row for that later text.

Donor table

The ATTY donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not infer a bar number, a practice area, or a motive from four letters. The FEC field is not a licensing roster.

Repeat names among 27,764 lines from 731 people are expected. Associates who listed a firm name are not in these 731 unless a receipt also carried ATTY.

ATTY’s 27,764 lines from 731 donors totaling $12,586,849 are the four-letter abbreviation, not ATTORNEY, LAWYER, SELF/ATTORNEY, or KIRKLAND & ELLIS. Unitemized gifts and law-firm PAC filings that lack this abbreviation stay out. A later receipt that spells out ATTORNEY leaves this row. Occupation pages show titles beside ATTY. The donor table does not certify bar numbers. Follow committees for party and office. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not NAICS legal services.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $12,586,849, 27,764 contributions, 731 donors, top employer ATTY. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS.

Compare ATTORNEY, LAWYER, SELF/ATTORNEY, and KIRKLAND & ELLIS on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles next to this abbreviation. Follow committees on the donor table for party and office.

Keep ATTY’s $12,586,849, 27,764 contributions, and 731 donors on this four-letter abbreviation. ATTORNEY, LAWYER, and SELF/ATTORNEY stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside ATTY. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not a bar roster and not NAICS legal services.

Four-letter coverage versus spelled-out legal titles

ATTY’s $12,586,849 from 731 donors and 27,764 lines is the abbreviation cluster, not the spelled-out ATTORNEY row and not NAICS legal services. Receipts per donor run near 38. Dollars per unique person run high relative to SELF/ATTORNEY’s 2,138 donors at $14,212,696. LAWYER, KIRKLAND & ELLIS, and SELF are additional keys. LobbyVault does not recode ATTY into ATTORNEY.

Unitemized gifts, state filings, and law-firm PAC documents that lack this abbreviation are outside the $12,586,849. A later receipt that expands ATTY to ATTORNEY leaves this row for that later text. Associates who listed a firm name are in that firm row, not necessarily in the 731.

The donor table lists disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a bar-number inference. Occupation pages show titles beside the abbreviation. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault — $12,586,849, 27,764 contributions, 731 donors — self-reported form text, not NAICS 5411.

Questions

How much have ATTY-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $12,586,849 to the ATTY employer string, from 27,764 contributions and 731 donors. These are itemized individual receipts with that abbreviation, not the spelled-out ATTORNEY row and not a NAICS legal-services total. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is ATTY the same as ATTORNEY or LAWYER?

No. ATTORNEY and LAWYER are separate grouped strings with their own pages. A receipt stamped ATTY is counted only in the $12,586,849 here. LobbyVault does not merge abbreviations into the spelled-out title. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Does this include every lawyer who donated?

No. Only receipts whose grouped employer text is ATTY are in the total. People who wrote ATTORNEY, LAWYER, SELF/ATTORNEY, or a firm name are elsewhere. The 731 donor count is unique contributors in this string, not a national bar census.

Why are there 27,764 contributions from 731 donors?

Each itemized gift is a line. Repeat donations from the same 731 people produce the 27,764 receipt count — on the order of 38 lines per donor. Recurring itemized programs raise that ratio. The FEC field is transactional, not a once-per-person census.