{"id":142713,"date":"2026-01-26T17:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/26\/politics-is-a-crapshoot-and-biglaw-lobbyists-are-raking-it-in\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:27:35","slug":"politics-is-a-crapshoot-and-biglaw-lobbyists-are-raking-it-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/26\/politics-is-a-crapshoot-and-biglaw-lobbyists-are-raking-it-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics Is A Crapshoot And Biglaw Lobbyists Are Raking It In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to data pulled from Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings, which Am Law 200 Biglaw firm took in the most lobbying money in 2025?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The law firm\u2019s record $73.8 million in total LDA revenue is impressive, but falls behind the LDA revenue ($88.3 million) of Ballard Partners, a lobbying-only firm. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/politics-is-a-crapshoot-and-biglaw-lobbyists-are-raking-it-in\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics Is A Crapshoot And Biglaw Lobbyists Are Raking It In<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/handshake-money-merger-GettyImages-157281552-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to data pulled from Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings, which Am Law 200 Biglaw firm took in the most lobbying money in 2025?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The law firm\u2019s record $73.8 million in total LDA revenue is impressive, but falls behind the LDA revenue ($88.3 million) of Ballard Partners, a lobbying-only firm. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/politics-is-a-crapshoot-and-biglaw-lobbyists-are-raking-it-in\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/politics-is-a-crapshoot-and-biglaw-lobbyists-are-raking-it-in\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to data pulled from Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings, which Am Law 200 Biglaw firm took in the most lobbying money in 2025? Hint: The law firm\u2019s record $73.8 million in total LDA revenue is impressive, but falls behind the LDA revenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/handshake-money-merger-GettyImages-157281552-scaled-nV6Wk3.jpg?fit=2560%2C1708&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}