Post by Moses on Mar 5, 2005 9:17:22 GMT -5
Patton Boggs tops K St. money league
By Josephine Hearn
Law firm Patton Boggs [Cokie Robert's brother's firm-- the US has become quite the incestuous tribal dynasty] continued its reign atop K Street last year, edging out Cassidy & Associates to hold top billing in The Hill’s annual survey of lobbying firm revenues.
Patton Boggs’s lobbying revenue was $30.6 million in 2004, 1.9 percent above the $30 million it raked in the year before. Cassidy & Associates increased its lobbying billings marginally (1.1 percent), from $27.8 million to $28.1 million, while Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld stayed in third position, with $27.6 million, just ahead of Van Scoyoc & Associates, up one place, in fourth, with $25.2 million.
Dutko Worldwide, formerly the Dutko Group, shot up six places in the ranking, moving from 11th in 2003 to fifth last year. Dutko has been undergoing a broad reorganization of its businesses, and the firm rolled out its new name and branding at a reception Tuesday night.
Meanwhile, Greenberg Traurig, still reeling from the loss of rainmaker Jack Abramoff in a high-profile lobbying scandal involving work for Indian tribes, dropped from fourth to 16th place in the money league. Many of the firm’s lobbyists have left in recent months.
Lobbying revenues in this survey are based on public-disclosure reports filed twice a year with the Senate Office of Public Records and the clerk of the House of Representatives. The Hill obtained summaries of these reports — which were due Monday but will not be fully available to the public for several months — from the top 50 firms in revenue from disclosure reports filed six months ago. Rankings from 2003 and earlier are based on compilations of disclosure reports provided by PoliticalMoneyLine.
Several firms, including Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw and Timmons & Co., declined to provide their revenue figures to The Hill. They are not included in this survey.
Cassidy & Associates, which was able to increase its revenues in a typically stagnant election year, has been in the midst of an aggressive reorganization in an effort to regain the No. 1 ranking it enjoyed for many years in the past.
“We had two or three years where revenue was stable,” said Gregg Hartley, a former chief of staff to House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who has led Cassidy’s overhaul. “We’re trying to kick that up.” In 21 months, Hartley has made the firm two-thirds Republican, up from 50-50 when he was hired, and has created new practices in communications and financial services.
Dutko opened a global affairs practice in 2004, part of a firm-wide expansion backed by Lake Capital.
Along with Dutko, two all-Republican firms, Barbour Griffith & Rogers (No. 8) and the Federalist Group (No. 13), moved up considerably in the rankings, buoyed by Republican control of the House, Senate and the White House.
Tax lobbying firm Clark Consulting/Federal Policy Group (No. 9) and defense firm PMA Group (No. 11) also showed an improvement over 2003. The former represented many clients on the corporate tax bill, which passed last fall after a drawn-out lobbying battle.
Several firms had poorer showings in 2004. After being hit hard by the Abramoff scandal, Greenberg Traurig (No. 16) lost many of its top lobbyists, including Todd Boulanger, Jim Hirni, Shana Tesler, Kevin Ring, Neil Volz, Michael Smith and Padgett Wilson. They all left the firm in 2004, and took some clients with them.
Quinn Gillespie dropped from eighth to 12th during a year when one of the firm’s founders, Ed Gillespie, was on leave serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Kari Lundgren, Mark H. Rodeffer, Emily Beaver and Jim Snyder contributed to this report.
By Josephine Hearn
Law firm Patton Boggs [Cokie Robert's brother's firm-- the US has become quite the incestuous tribal dynasty] continued its reign atop K Street last year, edging out Cassidy & Associates to hold top billing in The Hill’s annual survey of lobbying firm revenues.
Patton Boggs’s lobbying revenue was $30.6 million in 2004, 1.9 percent above the $30 million it raked in the year before. Cassidy & Associates increased its lobbying billings marginally (1.1 percent), from $27.8 million to $28.1 million, while Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld stayed in third position, with $27.6 million, just ahead of Van Scoyoc & Associates, up one place, in fourth, with $25.2 million.
Dutko Worldwide, formerly the Dutko Group, shot up six places in the ranking, moving from 11th in 2003 to fifth last year. Dutko has been undergoing a broad reorganization of its businesses, and the firm rolled out its new name and branding at a reception Tuesday night.
Meanwhile, Greenberg Traurig, still reeling from the loss of rainmaker Jack Abramoff in a high-profile lobbying scandal involving work for Indian tribes, dropped from fourth to 16th place in the money league. Many of the firm’s lobbyists have left in recent months.
Lobbying revenues in this survey are based on public-disclosure reports filed twice a year with the Senate Office of Public Records and the clerk of the House of Representatives. The Hill obtained summaries of these reports — which were due Monday but will not be fully available to the public for several months — from the top 50 firms in revenue from disclosure reports filed six months ago. Rankings from 2003 and earlier are based on compilations of disclosure reports provided by PoliticalMoneyLine.
Several firms, including Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw and Timmons & Co., declined to provide their revenue figures to The Hill. They are not included in this survey.
Cassidy & Associates, which was able to increase its revenues in a typically stagnant election year, has been in the midst of an aggressive reorganization in an effort to regain the No. 1 ranking it enjoyed for many years in the past.
“We had two or three years where revenue was stable,” said Gregg Hartley, a former chief of staff to House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who has led Cassidy’s overhaul. “We’re trying to kick that up.” In 21 months, Hartley has made the firm two-thirds Republican, up from 50-50 when he was hired, and has created new practices in communications and financial services.
Dutko opened a global affairs practice in 2004, part of a firm-wide expansion backed by Lake Capital.
Along with Dutko, two all-Republican firms, Barbour Griffith & Rogers (No. 8) and the Federalist Group (No. 13), moved up considerably in the rankings, buoyed by Republican control of the House, Senate and the White House.
Tax lobbying firm Clark Consulting/Federal Policy Group (No. 9) and defense firm PMA Group (No. 11) also showed an improvement over 2003. The former represented many clients on the corporate tax bill, which passed last fall after a drawn-out lobbying battle.
Several firms had poorer showings in 2004. After being hit hard by the Abramoff scandal, Greenberg Traurig (No. 16) lost many of its top lobbyists, including Todd Boulanger, Jim Hirni, Shana Tesler, Kevin Ring, Neil Volz, Michael Smith and Padgett Wilson. They all left the firm in 2004, and took some clients with them.
Quinn Gillespie dropped from eighth to 12th during a year when one of the firm’s founders, Ed Gillespie, was on leave serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Kari Lundgren, Mark H. Rodeffer, Emily Beaver and Jim Snyder contributed to this report.