LATHAM & WATKINS as FEC employer text: $6.4 million

Ampersand letterhead on individual receipts

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. LATHAM & WATKINS is the partnership as stored, including the ampersand. The $6,402,811 total is those itemized gifts. It is not the firm’s revenue, not matter-billing totals, and not a NAICS rollup of all large law firms.

People who typed LATHAM WATKINS without the ampersand, LW, ATTORNEY, or LAWYER without the firm sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into this key.

Offices in many cities share one partnership string when filers type LATHAM & WATKINS. The industry headline does not split offices. Occupation pages show titles beside the firm.

572 donors and 13,330 lines

572 unique donors produced 13,330 LATHAM & WATKINS contribution lines totaling $6,402,811. That is on the order of 23 itemized receipts per donor. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a partner-versus-associate split. KING & SPALDING and HOLLAND & KNIGHT are other partnership strings in this batch.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the firm’s committee PAC filings are outside the $6,402,811 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear.

572 unique donors produced 13,330 lines totaling $6,402,811. Alumni who still type the firm remain in the 572. The FEC field is not a current partnership directory.

Peer firms and lawyer title rows

SULLIVAN & CROMWELL, KING & SPALDING, HOLLAND & KNIGHT, and KIRKLAND & ELLIS are separate employer-name keys. Combining them with LATHAM & WATKINS would be a researcher-built big-law recode. This page stays at $6,402,811 for LATHAM & WATKINS only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the firm. ATTORNEY, LAWYER, and ATTY exist as industry keys when donors put the credential in the employer box instead of the partnership name.

Donor table

The LATHAM & WATKINS donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a deal, a litigation caption, or a motive to that line. Alumni who still type the firm share the string with current partners and staff. The FEC field is not a Martindale directory.

Repeat names are expected among 13,330 lines from 572 people. Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the firm string.

LATHAM & WATKINS on the table includes the ampersand. 13,330 lines from 572 donors totaling $6,402,811 are not a current partnership census. SULLIVAN & CROMWELL, KING & SPALDING, and HOLLAND & KNIGHT names belong on those pages. ATTORNEY typed alone is a title key.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $6,402,811, 13,330 contributions, 572 donors, top employer LATHAM & WATKINS. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Open KING & SPALDING and HOLLAND & KNIGHT as sibling firm-name pages. Use occupation breakdowns for titles next to this employer.

One partnership, not a big-law index

LATHAM & WATKINS grouped $6,402,811 from 572 donors and 13,330 lines. SULLIVAN & CROMWELL, KING & SPALDING, HOLLAND & KNIGHT, and KIRKLAND & ELLIS remain separate firm pages. ATTORNEY, LAWYER, and ATTY remain title pages. Adding those keys to this total would be a researcher recode, not an FEC field.

LATHAM WATKINS without the ampersand, if stored, is another key. Unitemized gifts and the firm’s PAC documents stay outside the $6,402,811 unless an individual receipt lists LATHAM & WATKINS.

The donor table lists disclosed names and committees. LobbyVault does not attach a deal to a large gift. Alumni who still type the firm remain in the 572. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS legal-services total.

Keep LATHAM & WATKINS’s $6,402,811, 13,330 contributions, and 572 donors on this partnership string. SULLIVAN & CROMWELL, KING & SPALDING, and HOLLAND & KNIGHT stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts and the firm PAC remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside the firm. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not a NAICS legal-services total.

Questions

How much have LATHAM & WATKINS-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $6,402,811 to the LATHAM & WATKINS employer string, from 13,330 contributions and 572 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 Latham & Watkins corporate political spending?

No. The $6,402,811 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to LATHAM & WATKINS. Partnership 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 Sullivan & Cromwell or King & Spalding lawyers?

No. SULLIVAN & CROMWELL and KING & SPALDING are separate employer strings with their own pages. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text LATHAM & WATKINS. Staff who typed only ATTORNEY are in that title row instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed LATHAM & WATKINS?

The rollup counts 572 donors and 13,330 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an attorney headcount from the firm. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.