Lawyers spurn Trump campaign in individual donations, including from Jones Day
A Reuters analysis of Federal Election Commission records shows a wide gulf between individual lawyer donations to the candidates reut.rs/3jfDaRy
A Reuters analysis of Federal Election Commission records shows a wide gulf between individual lawyer donations to the candidates reut.rs/3jfDaRy
Lawyers have long donated more to Democratic presidential candidates than to Republicans, data shows. The profession leans left overall, according to a 2015 report reut.rs/3jfDaRy
Lawyers at Jones Day, which has earned millions as outside counsel to U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, have donated nearly $90,000 to the campaign committee of Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden reut.rs/3jfDaRy
Jones Day has earned over $4.5 million since 2019 as outside counsel to the Trump campaign. Two Jones Day attorneys who asked to not be named said they donated to Biden because they preferred his policies and felt no pressure to donate to Trump reut.rs/3jfDaRy
The firms whose lawyers have donated most to Trump’s re-election campaign are Fish & Richardson, Kirkland & Ellis and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher reut.rs/3jfDaRy
The firms whose lawyers have donated most to Biden’s campaign in the current election cycle are plaintiff-side giant Morgan & Morgan; the campaign’s outside counsel firm Covington & Burling; and Sidley Austin reut.rs/3jfDaRy
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