SELF/ATTORNEY on FEC schedules: $14.2 million

A concatenated solo-practice stamp

Committees often put SELF in one FEC box and ATTORNEY in the other. Software concatenates them as SELF/ATTORNEY. LobbyVault ranks that joined string separately from ATTORNEY, LAWYER, ATTY, and SELF. The $14,212,696 total is only the slash form. Combining it with ATTORNEY’s much larger standalone total would mix two stored keys. Those 2,138 people and 28,353 lines are the SELF/ATTORNEY grouping only. Those 2,138 people and 28,353 lines are the SELF/ATTORNEY grouping only.

People who typed a firm name (KIRKLAND & ELLIS and other partnership rows) or ATTORNEY without SELF sit in those other rows. LobbyVault does not recode slash pairs into the unsashed title.

2,138 donors and 28,353 lines

2,138 unique donors produced 28,353 SELF/ATTORNEY contribution lines totaling $14,212,696. Receipts per donor run near 13 — lower repeat intensity than 60-line payroll names, still enough to show recurring itemized gifts. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Law-firm PACs and independent expenditures that lack this individual string are outside the $14,212,696. Unitemized gifts never appear.

Legal-title siblings

ATTORNEY, LAWYER, ATTY, and KIRKLAND & ELLIS are separate keys. SELF without ATTORNEY is another large status row. SELF/ATTORNEY is the slash pair only. A combined “lawyers” recode must list every key and accept cross-receipt overlap.

Occupation pages show whichever second field was stored. Some later receipts drop SELF and keep ATTORNEY; those later receipts leave this row.

Donor table

The SELF/ATTORNEY 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 contingency fee, or a motive from the slash pair. The FEC field is not a state-bar roster.

Repeat names among 28,353 lines from 2,138 people are expected. Associates who listed a firm name are not in these 2,138 unless a receipt also carried SELF/ATTORNEY.

SELF/ATTORNEY’s 28,353 lines from 2,138 donors totaling $14,212,696 should be kept next to ATTORNEY, ATTY, LAWYER, SELF, and KIRKLAND & ELLIS as separate keys. Unitemized gifts and law-firm PAC filings that lack this slash pair stay out. A later receipt that drops SELF leaves this row. Occupation pages show the companion field. The donor table does not certify bar numbers. Follow committees for party and office. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not NAICS 5411.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $14,212,696, 28,353 contributions, 2,138 donors, top employer SELF/ATTORNEY. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS 5411.

Compare ATTORNEY, ATTY, LAWYER, and SELF on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles stored beside this slash pair. Follow committees on the donor table for party and office.

Keep SELF/ATTORNEY’s $14,212,696, 28,353 contributions, and 2,138 donors on this slash pair. ATTORNEY, ATTY, and KIRKLAND & ELLIS stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show the companion field stored beside SELF/ATTORNEY. 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 5411.

Slash-pair coverage versus ATTORNEY, ATTY, and named firms

SELF/ATTORNEY’s $14,212,696 from 2,138 donors and 28,353 lines is the concatenated solo-practice stamp, not the standalone ATTORNEY row and not NAICS legal services. ATTY ($12,586,849, 731 donors, 27,764 lines in this batch) is a four-letter abbreviation row. KIRKLAND & ELLIS ($11,552,865, 524 donors, 12,815 lines) is a partnership-name row. LAWYER and SELF are additional keys. LobbyVault does not merge them.

Receipts per donor run near 13. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and law-firm PAC documents that lack this slash pair are outside the $14,212,696. A later receipt that drops SELF and keeps ATTORNEY leaves this row. Associates who listed a firm name are in that firm row, not necessarily in the 2,138.

The donor table lists disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a bar-number inference. Occupation pages show the companion field. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault — $14,212,696, 28,353 contributions, 2,138 donors — self-reported slash-joined text, not NAICS 5411.

Questions

How much have SELF/ATTORNEY donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $14,212,696 to the SELF/ATTORNEY string, from 28,353 contributions and 2,138 donors. These are itemized individual receipts with that slash-joined text, not the standalone 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 SELF/ATTORNEY the same as ATTORNEY?

No. ATTORNEY without the slash is a separate, larger grouped string. SELF/ATTORNEY is the concatenated employer/occupation pair. The $14,212,696 figure is the slash form only. LobbyVault does not merge the two keys. 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 Big Law firm employees?

Only if a receipt’s grouped text is SELF/ATTORNEY. Named firms such as KIRKLAND & ELLIS are separate strings. People who wrote ATTORNEY and a partnership name are on those other pages. The 2,138 donors are unique contributors in this slash pair.

Why the slash in the label?

Committees often put SELF in employer and ATTORNEY in occupation, or the reverse. Filing software joins them as SELF/ATTORNEY. That is a paperwork pattern, not a second law license. The 28,353 lines are receipts stored under that joined string. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.