SELF EMPLOYED ATTORNEY

A three-word occupation meeting a two-year cycle

LobbyVault stores employer and occupation groupings on one axis and election cycles on the other. Rows that match both keys — Self Employed Attorney and 2008 — sum to $154,643. One hundred forty-five itemized contributions and 27 unique donors produced that cell. The figure is not an official organization disbursement, does not name recipient committees, and is not an independent-expenditure total. Committee transfers live in other FEC tables. The join exists because two public dimensions overlapped on a stored string and an even-year tag.

Neither the Self Employed Attorney hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Exact Self, used alone, is a placeholder this extract does not treat as a profession. Self Employed Attorney is longer form text that names a legal practice status. ATTORNEY, LAWYER, ESQUIRE, LAW FIRM, and named firm keys remain other buckets if filers typed those strings instead. This page is the three-word grouping only. The FEC does not verify bar admission, current solo status, or a client roster from the occupation field.

5.0% of the Self Employed Attorney roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $3,068,440. The 2008 slice of $154,643 is about 5.0% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.0%, or $2,913,797. Treating 2008 as the Self Employed Attorney FEC story would ignore that remainder. A presidential cycle cell this small relative to the parent is still a six-figure join, and it is still a slice.

Treat $3,068,440 as the denominator for the 5.0% share. It is not law-firm revenue, not a count of practicing attorneys, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $3,068,440 and keeps the cycle hub from being mistaken for a single occupation’s book.

Questions

How much did Self Employed Attorney donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $154,643 in itemized individual contributions for the Self Employed Attorney grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 145 contributions and 27 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $3,068,440 all-cycle figure.

What share of Self Employed Attorney FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $3,068,440. The 2008 cell of $154,643 is about 5.0% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.0%, or $2,913,797, on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is Self Employed Attorney the same as the FEC placeholder Self?

No. Exact Self is a junk employer placeholder this extract does not treat as a profession. Self Employed Attorney is a three-word occupation string naming independent legal practice. ATTORNEY, LAWYER, and named firm keys remain other buckets. This join reports the 2008 string match only, totaling $154,643 from 27 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Self Employed Attorney 2008 join?

Open Self Employed Attorney 2008 for the cycle overlay, Self Employed Attorney for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.