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The top firm for Ossoff ’s campaign, with the most Perdue, at $531,000—after the securities and invest-
individual lawyer contributions by far, was Wilmer ment, real estate and insurance industries.
Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, while Atlanta-based In the Loeffler-Warnock race, the Democratic
Alston & Bird had the most lawyers contributing to challenger raised at least $1.27 million from the
Warnock. Notably, California plaintiffs firm Lieff legal industry—like Ossoff, second only to the
Cabreser Heimann & Bernstein had the second- education industry. By contrast, Loeffler received
highest number of lawyers giving to both Ossoff and only $140,500 from the legal industry, behind con-
Warnock. tributions from the real estate and securities and
For Perdue, Atlanta-based King & Spalding had investment industries.
the most lawyer-contributors. The only firm with The bulk of the Loeffler campaign’s $28.2 million
five or more attorneys contributing to Loeffler, in contributions, at $23.35 million, came from Loef-
whose campaign is mostly self-funded, was the legal fler and her husband, according to the Center for
department for the Intercontinental Exchange, with Responsive Politics.
five. Loeffler’s husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, owns the
Atlanta-based Fortune 500 company, the parent of Perdue-Ossoff
the New York Stock Exchange. In the Perdue-Ossoff race, Ossoff received contri-
In all, the four individual campaigns and related butions from 2,126 individual lawyers, many from
campaign political action committees raised a total national firms outside of Georgia, according to the
of $103.34 million through Dec. 4, according to the most recent FEC disclosure data. Wilmer led the
Center for Responsive Politics. pack at 30 lawyers, almost all in Washington, D.C.,
Ossoff has received at least $1.84 million from followed by Lieff Cabraser with 18.
lawyers and law firms, making the legal industry There were 11 firms with 10 or more individual
his second-largest contributor (after education attorneys contributing—almost all at large Washing-
at $2.23 million), according to the Center for ton, California and New York firms with no Georgia
Responsive Politics’ analysis of the most recent locations.
campaign filings with the Federal Elections Com- Rounding out Ossoff ’s top law firm contributors
mission. were New York’s Wachtell Lipton (17), Skadden (16),
By contrast, the legal industry was only the fourth- Latham & Watkins (14), Sidley Austin (13), Alston
largest industry contributor to Ossoff ’s opponent,
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