Skadden Arps and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Skadden Arps firm string × 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Skadden Arps and 2008 — sum to $484,606. The cell holds 413 itemized contributions and 207 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 Skadden Arps hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. The two-word Skadden Arps key in 2008 holds 413 lines from 207 donors. Longer legal-name spellings are other buckets. LobbyVault does not pick a canonical Am Law name. Cite this cell as the stored short string crossed with the 2008 cycle. SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM, SKADDEN ARPS LLP, and generic ATTORNEY keys stay separate unless they grouped to SKADDEN ARPS.

9.1% of the Skadden Arps roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,342,997 ($5.3 million). The 2008 slice of $484,606 is about 9.1% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 90.9%. Treating 2008 as the Skadden Arps FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $5,342,997 as the denominator for the 9.1% 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 $5,342,997.

413 contributions from 207 donors

Dividing $484,606 by 413 contributions yields about $1,173 per itemized gift. Dividing by 207 donors yields about $2,341 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.0. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

207 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 Skadden Arps 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Skadden Arps 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 Skadden Arps to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $484,606 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 413 contributions, the 207 unique donors, and the 9.1% share of $5,342,997.

Law-firm text, not a legal-sector recode

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $484,606. 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 Skadden’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, 207 donors, and 413 contributions. SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM, SKADDEN ARPS LLP, and generic ATTORNEY keys stay separate unless they grouped to SKADDEN ARPS. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Skadden Arps and 2008 together

Start with $484,606, then Skadden Arps 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Skadden Arps, 2008, $484,606, 413 contributions, 207 donors, 9.1% of $5,342,997, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 9.1% share, the 207-donor count, and the $1,173 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 Skadden Arps donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $484,606 in itemized individual contributions for the Skadden Arps grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 413 contributions and 207 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,342,997 all-cycle figure.

What share of Skadden Arps FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,342,997. The 2008 cell of $484,606 is about 9.1% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 90.9% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Skadden Arps hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Skadden Arps’s PAC or an official account?

No. $484,606 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Skadden Arps. 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 Skadden’s PAC.

Where is the overlay for the Skadden Arps 2008 join?

Open Skadden Arps 2008 for the cycle overlay, Skadden Arps 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.