Lawyer political money in the 2012 election cycle

Lawyer meeting the 2012 election cycle

2012 is a presidential federal cycle on the FEC calendar. Intersecting the Lawyer occupation grouping with that year produces $9,479,911, 11,049 lines, and 4,485 donor keys. Those three figures are the join. The occupation hub still holds $105,321,940 across all cycles in the aggregate. This page does not restate that hub without the year filter.

About $2,114 per donor ($9,479,911 ÷ 4,485) and about $858 per contribution ($9,479,911 ÷ 11,049) describe this string in 2012. Lines per donor average about 2.5 (11,049 ÷ 4,485). Those ratios are arithmetic on the packet, not typical gifts and not a unique-person audit. Repeat givers raise the line count.

The 2012 election-cycle hub places Lawyer beside other occupation keys that year. Neither that hub nor this tie converts $9,479,911 into a civic-engagement score. Named employers who share a workplace with people in this cell sit in industry rows if the legal name was used instead of the occupation word.

9.0% of the Lawyer all-cycle grouping

9.0% is $9,479,911 divided by $105,321,940. The leftover $95,842,029 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. A 9.0% year share is a piece of this grouping’s recorded history, not a ranked list of peak years — other years’ amounts are not in this packet except as that residual.

Presidential solicitation volume can lift itemized counts. 11,049 lines still describe only receipts tagged Lawyer in 2012. The packet does not publish committee names inside the cell; those live on the occupation and cycle overlays. Do not treat 9.0% as proof that 2012 was this occupation’s largest year in every dataset.

Lawyer is typed text, not a bar-association file

FEC.gov does not verify bar numbers. LAWYER is whatever occupation text grouped to this key. ATTORNEY, PARTNER, and named-firm employer strings are neighboring keys. A partner who typed the LLP name is usually on an industry hub, not here.

This page does not recode practice areas. A public defender, a general counsel, and a retired lawyer who all typed Lawyer can share the cell. License status is unknown. The Lawyer string is the filter, not a census of practicing attorneys.

What Lawyer money in this cycle is not

The cell is not ABA membership, not a law-firm PAC, and not independent expenditures about judges or crime bills. State-bar PACs, if they file federally, are other committees.

Federal legal-services awards on USAspending are a different dataset. This join does not claim that Lawyer-coded gifts funded those awards. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Motive is outside the packet.

Pages that keep Lawyer and 2012 apart

The Lawyer occupation page holds $105,321,940 and other years. The 2012 election-cycle page holds that year’s occupation list. All occupations ranks neighboring job strings. All FEC ties lists other occupation–cycle pages so this cell is not mistaken for an industry–PAC join.

Keep both sides of the name — Lawyer and 2012 — whenever $9,479,911 is quoted. Cite 11,049 contributions, 4,485 donors, 9.0% of $105,321,940, and FEC.gov. Do not convert 4,485 keys into licensed or enrolled people. Do not fold USAspending into the cell.

How to cite Lawyer × 2012

A complete claim names Lawyer and 2012, then $9,479,911, 11,049 contributions, 4,485 donors, and 9.0% of $105,321,940, source FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Unitemized gifts stay omitted. Independent expenditures stay omitted. Federal awards that mention a similar profession stay omitted.

The 4,485-donor count is the net of filing choices in 2012: people who typed Lawyer increased the cell; people who typed a firm name or a neighboring title reduced it. $9,479,911 and the 9.0% share travel with that net. They do not travel with a licensing board, a union roster, or a USAspending file. Quote the occupation hub for $105,321,940 and other cycles.

2012 remains a presidential federal cycle. That calendar fact does not add dollars. The join stops at itemized individual receipts tagged Lawyer in 2012: $9,479,911 on 11,049 lines from 4,485 donors. About $858 per line and $2,114 per donor are means, not typical gifts. Repeat filers can sit in the 11,049 without raising unique people above 4,485.

Committee-level rows inside the Lawyer cell are on the occupation and cycle tables, not restated here. Quote both sides of the join so a neighboring title string is not treated as this URL.

Questions

How much did Lawyer-tagged donors give in 2012?

The join records $9,479,911 in itemized individual contributions for Lawyer in 2012, from 11,049 contributions and 4,485 donors. The grouping’s all-cycle total is $105,321,940.

What share of the Lawyer grouping is 2012?

9.0%: $9,479,911 of $105,321,940. Other years’ amounts are not listed in this packet except as the leftover $95,842,029 on the occupation hub. A year share is not a ranking of peak cycles.

Does this include people who listed a company instead of Lawyer?

Usually not. Named firms are other industry keys. Neighboring titles are other occupation keys. This cell is the grouped Lawyer string in 2012. Mixing keys would blur the 4,485-donor count.

Do Lawyer donations fund federal awards?

No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending obligations are different datasets. This tie reports only itemized individual receipts tagged Lawyer in 2012: $9,479,911 across 11,049 contributions from 4,485 donors.