In this campaign cycle, “once again, lawyers as a group are not only the largest donors of any single profession tracked, they are also the most consistent, campaign watchers say. As of March 1, when the latest Federal Election Commission figures were available, the legal profession had contributed more than $65 million to federal campaigns since Jan. 1, 2003, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. … ‘It looks like lawyers are making a strong effort to make up for the lack of soft money,’ says CRP spokesman Steve Weiss.” Washington, D.C., attorney William Canfield, who chairs the ABA?s Standing Committee on Election Law, explains that lawyers “are so much more civically engaged than most parts of society”. (Susan Kostal, “Spreading the Money Around”, ABA Journal, May).
Number one in donations (and so civically engaged)
In this campaign cycle, “once again, lawyers as a group are not only the largest donors of any single profession tracked, they are also the most consistent, campaign watchers say. As of March 1, when the latest Federal Election Commission figures were available, the legal profession had contributed more than $65 million to federal campaigns […]
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