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¦ From BIG LAW on PAGE 9 Warnock law firm contributor, followed by Lieff Ca-
& Bird (11), Cooley (10), Kirkland & Ellis (10), Pat- braser, with 16.
terson Belknap Webb & Tyler (10) and Sullivan & Next were Kilpatrick (11), Paul Weiss (9)
Cromwell (10). and—with eight lawyer-contributors apiece to War-
Only one Atlanta-based firm, Alston & Bird, was nock—Virginia plaintiffs firm Allen, Allen, Allen &
among the top Ossoff donors by number of attor- Allen, Covington & Burling, Dentons and Jones Day.
neys, although lawyers at many other big local firms Lawyers from those firms also contributed to Ossoff.
contributed. Loeffler had only 102 lawyers contributing to her
One high-profile Atlanta litigation firm, Bon- campaign, according to FEC data, led by the Inter-
durant Mixson & Elmore, had eight lawyers continental Exchange’s legal department, with five.
contributing to Ossoff—and seven contributing to
Warnock—notable since the firm has only 34 law- PACs
yers. King & Spalding (9) and Kilpatrick Townsend Big Law attorney donations are still only a frac-
& Crews (8); were the other top Atlanta-based firms tion of the millions of dollars in out-of-state money
for lawyers contributing to Ossoff. pouring into the runoffs from outside super-PACs
On the Republican side, Perdue took in that are controlled by the parties, not the candidates.
contributions from only 377 in- “Most of the money is coming
dividual lawyers. Leading the list from outside of Georgia. This run-
was King & Spalding, with 15 law- off is unique, since control of the
yers contributing. King & Spalding Out-of-state lawyers in Senate comes down to these two
lawyers also contributed to the firms such as Wachtell, Senate races in the same state,”

Ossoff and Warnock campaigns, Skadden, Wilmer, Latham, said Quinn of the Center for Re-
but in smaller numbers. Paul Weiss and Cooley— sponsive Politics.
Perdue’s other top firm con- PACs have spent at least $150
tributors were at Alston & Bird which have no Atlanta million since the Nov. 3 Gen-
and Paul Weiss, with 10 lawyers eral Election alone—with nearly
apiece. Other firms with five or offices—have contributed two-thirds coming from super
more lawyers contributing to heavily to the Georgia U.S. PACs unaffiliated with the official

Senate races.

Perdue were: Delta Air Lines’ campaigns, according to an Atlan-
legal department (6), Kirkland ta-Journal Constitution report.
& Ellis (6), Atlanta-based Tay- Law firms can’t contribute di-
lor English Duma (6) and Middle Georgia firm rectly to candidates, so firms use traditional PACs
Adams, Barfield & Baity, which had five attorney that limit contributions to $5,000 or less per indi-
contributors. vidual employee per election cycle. “In races this
Lawyers from several other prominent New York expensive, that’s kind of a drop in the bucket,” Quinn
and Washington firms were among Perdue’s contrib- said about law firm PACS, noting that far more
utors, but in smaller numbers. money has come from party-controlled super-PACs.
They don’t disclose individual donors and can spend
unlimited sums independent of the candidates.
Loeffler-Warnock
Warnock received contributions from 1,459 law- Campaigns must submit their next contributor
yers, and, like Ossoff, those were dominated by filings to the FEC by Dec. 24.
contributors from big New York, California and ¦

Washington, D.C., firms, according to the most re- Meredith Hobbs writes about the Atlanta legal
cent FEC data. community and the business of law. Contact her
Alston & Bird, with 17 lawyer-contributors (all at [email protected] or 404.419.2837. On Twit-
but one from its Atlanta headquarters) was the top ter: @MeredithHobbs.

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