"BigLaw firms are moving further to the left, according to an analysis of campaign contributions by lawyers and staff members in BigLaw and larger plaintiffs-side law firms. The findings: 92.45% of campaign contributions by that group went to Democrats in 2023 and 2024, according to a Bloomberg Law column and a slightly different version of the story published by Original Jurisdiction."
"Attorneys and staff members at the studied firms contributed about $52 million altogether to Democratic-affiliated groups compared to about $4 million for Republican-affiliated groups. "This represents a pretty significant shift to the left," Muller told Bloomberg Law. Muller's findings are based on campaign contributions by attorneys and staff member at the nation's 100 top-grossing firms and 50 larger plaintiffs-side firms. He looked at contributions to the campaigns of former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump; to major party organizations;"
Campaign contributions from lawyers and staff at the nation's 100 top-grossing law firms and 50 larger plaintiffs-side firms were heavily weighted toward Democrats in 2023 and 2024. Ninety-two point forty-five percent of contributions from those employees went to Democratic-affiliated candidates and organizations, representing roughly $52 million versus about $4 million to Republican-affiliated groups. The Democratic-to-Republican contribution ratio for 2023–2024 reached roughly 12-to-1, up from about 6-to-1 in 2017–2020. The analysis counted donations to presidential campaigns, major party committees, and aggregators of campaign contributions. Several top firms showed near-unanimous Democratic support, with multiple firms at or above 99 percent Democratic contributions.
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