Greenberg Traurig and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Greenberg Traurig firm string × 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Greenberg Traurig and 2008 — sum to $447,545. The cell holds 422 itemized contributions and 225 unique donors. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Greenberg Traurig hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred twenty-five unique donors produced 422 Greenberg Traurig lines in 2008. That is a broad law-firm employer cell. Lobbying-registration databases are not this table. A Form 3 employer string is not a Lobbying Disclosure Act registrant list. GREENBERG TRAURIG LLP, GREENBERG TRAURIG PA, and ATTORNEY or LOBBYIST occupation strings remain other keys.

10.9% of the Greenberg Traurig roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,116,654 ($4.1 million). The 2008 slice of $447,545 is about 10.9% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 89.1%. Treating 2008 as the Greenberg Traurig FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $4,116,654 as the denominator for the 10.9% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, 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 $4,116,654.

422 contributions from 225 donors

Dividing $447,545 by 422 contributions yields about $1,061 per itemized gift. Dividing by 225 donors yields about $1,989 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 1.9. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

225 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Greenberg Traurig 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Greenberg Traurig is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Greenberg Traurig to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $447,545 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 422 contributions, the 225 unique donors, and the 10.9% share of $4,116,654.

Law-firm text, not a legal-sector recode

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $447,545. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not a legal-services NAICS total and not the firm’s PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 225 donors, and 422 contributions. GREENBERG TRAURIG LLP, GREENBERG TRAURIG PA, and ATTORNEY or LOBBYIST occupation strings remain other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Greenberg Traurig and 2008 together

Start with $447,545, then Greenberg Traurig 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Greenberg Traurig, 2008, $447,545, 422 contributions, 225 donors, 10.9% of $4,116,654, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 10.9% share, the 225-donor count, and the $1,061 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did Greenberg Traurig donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $447,545 in itemized individual contributions for the Greenberg Traurig grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 422 contributions and 225 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,116,654 all-cycle figure.

What share of Greenberg Traurig FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,116,654. The 2008 cell of $447,545 is about 10.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 89.1% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Greenberg Traurig hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Greenberg Traurig’s PAC or an official account?

No. $447,545 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Greenberg Traurig. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a legal-services NAICS total and not the firm’s PAC.

Where is the overlay for the Greenberg Traurig 2008 join?

Open Greenberg Traurig 2008 for the cycle overlay, Greenberg Traurig 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.