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COVINGTON & BURLING money in federal elections

Contributors who listed COVINGTON & BURLING on federal itemized receipts account for $5,335,841, according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 8,605 contributions from 359 donors — the smallest unique-person count among the three law-firm strings in this batch. COVINGTON & BURLING is the ampersand partnership form as typed, not a NAICS legal-services total, not the firm’s PAC, and not COVINGTON & BURLING LLP. Unitemized gifts stay outside the $5,335,841.

Key figures

  • COVINGTON & BURLING as FEC employer text totals $5,335,841 from 359 donors.
  • 8,605 contribution lines sit under that ampersand partnership string.
  • SKADDEN ARPS and VINSON & ELKINS are separate FEC keys.
  • The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS industry or firm PAC total.

Ampersand D.C. partnership string

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. COVINGTON & BURLING is the two-name form with an ampersand. The $5,335,841 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not lobbying-disclosure dollars, not a D.C. bar roster, and not a NAICS rollup of all law-firm employers. People who typed COVINGTON AND BURLING, COVINGTON & BURLING LLP, or COVINGTON sit in other rows if stored that way.

The FEC field is not a human-resources export across regulatory, litigation, and corporate groups. Alumni who still type COVINGTON & BURLING remain in the 359. LobbyVault does not recode those spelling variants into this ampersand key. Occupation pages show titles stored beside the firm.

359 donors and 8,605 lines

359 unique donors produced 8,605 COVINGTON & BURLING contribution lines totaling $5,335,841. That is on the order of 24 itemized receipts per donor. Among the three law-firm strings in this batch, the 359-donor count is the tightest unique-person file. SKADDEN ARPS and VINSON & ELKINS remain separate keys with their own pages. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a partner-versus-associate split.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the firm’s committee PAC filings are outside the $5,335,841 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Coverage is federal itemized individual receipts only.

Peer firm strings stay on their own pages

VINSON & ELKINS and SKADDEN ARPS are separate employer keys in this batch. Combining them with COVINGTON & BURLING would mix three stored partnership strings. This page stays at $5,335,841 for COVINGTON & BURLING only.

ATTORNEY and LAWYER as occupation-style keys still hold lawyers who omitted the firm name. Occupation breakdowns are the place to inspect those titles. State filings are omitted from the $5,335,841.

Donor table

The COVINGTON & BURLING donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a regulatory matter, a client, or a motive to that line. The 359 unique-person count is not a partnership headcount.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the ampersand string. People who typed COVINGTON & BURLING LLP are not in these 359 unless a receipt also grouped to COVINGTON & BURLING. Repeat names among 8,605 lines from 359 people are expected.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $5,335,841, 8,605 contributions, 359 donors, top employer COVINGTON & BURLING. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare other industry keys on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles stored next to this employer.

Keep COVINGTON & BURLING’s $5,335,841, 8,605 contributions, and 359 donors on this ampersand partnership string. LLP suffixes, peer firms, unitemized gifts, and committee PAC documents stay on their own records. The donor table lists disclosed recipients without converting the string into a NAICS legal-services total.

Ampersand receipts versus peer firm pages

COVINGTON & BURLING as an ampersand pair is the stored key behind $5,335,841. COVINGTON & BURLING LLP, if stored, is another row. Firm PAC filings are other FEC documents. Unitemized gifts stay outside the 8,605 lines from 359 donors — the smallest unique-person count among the three law-firm strings in this batch, without folding those other firms’ dollars into this page.

About 24 receipts per person is 8,605 divided by 359. The packet does not split regulatory, litigation, and corporate groups and does not certify a D.C. bar status. Occupation pages show attorney titles stored beside the firm.

Follow the donor table for disclosed recipients. SKADDEN ARPS and VINSON & ELKINS stay on their own pages. This guide does not assign party percentages to COVINGTON & BURLING and does not convert the string into a NAICS legal-services total. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Questions

How much have COVINGTON & BURLING-listed donors given federally?
LobbyVault attributes $5,335,841 to the COVINGTON & BURLING employer string, from 8,605 contributions and 359 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the firm’s PAC and not a NAICS legal-services total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
Is this Covington & Burling PAC spending?
No. The $5,335,841 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to COVINGTON & BURLING. Firm treasury and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. LobbyVault does not fold those documents into this industry row. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
Does this include Skadden or Vinson & Elkins lawyers?
No. SKADDEN ARPS and VINSON & ELKINS are separate employer strings with their own pages. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text COVINGTON & BURLING. Lawyers who typed only ATTORNEY sit in occupation-style rows instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
How many unique donors listed COVINGTON & BURLING?
The rollup counts 359 donors and 8,605 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a partnership headcount. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.