Lawyers
and
law
firm
staff
members
continue
to
be
among
the
top
political
campaign
donors,
but
which
party
is
taking
home
the
most
cash
from
Biglaw
firms?
According
to
new
research
from
Professor Derek
Muller
of
the
University
of
Notre
Dame
Law
School,
those
who
work
at
large
law
firms
leaned
even
further
to
the
left
than
they
had
in
the
past.
That
leads
us
to
our
next
question:
Which
Biglaw
firms
had
the
highest
percentage
of
contributions
to
Democratic
campaigns?
Before
we
get
to
that
ranking,
Muller
supplies
the
all-in
totals
at
his
blog,
Excess
of
Democracy:
All
told,
I
captured
about
$52
million
in
contributions
to
Democratic-affiliated
groups
compared
to
about
$4
million
for
Republican-affiliated
groups
in
2023-2024.
92.45%
of
contributions
went
to
Democrats,
about
a
12-to-1
ratio,
up
from
the
6-to-1
ratio
back
in
2020.
As
Muller
told
Bloomberg
Law,
“This
represents
a
pretty
significant
shift
to
the
left.”
Now,
without
further
ado,
these
are
the
top
10
Biglaw
firms
that
had
the
highest
percentage
of
contributions
to
Democratic
campaigns:
-
Proskauer
Rose
(100%) -
Susman
Godfrey
(100%) -
Fenwick
&
West
(99.8%) -
Schulte
Roth
&
Zabel
(99.8%) -
Cleary
Gottlieb
Steen
&
Hamilton
(99.7%) -
Steptoe
(99.7%) -
Cozen
O’Connor
(99.7%) -
Crowell
&
Moring
(99.5%) -
Perkins
Coie
(99.4%) -
Fried,
Frank,
Harris,
Shriver
&
Jacobson
(99.4%)
Click
here
to
see
the
rest
of
the
ranking.
Given
the
way
that
the
legal
profession
and
the
rule
of
law
have
been
threatened
under
the
Trump
II
reign,
will
lawyers
and
law
firm
staff
be
able
to
push
their
Democratic
loyalties
to
the
max?
“It
would
be
hard
to
get
farther
to
the
left,”
Mueller
said.
Ranking
the
most
liberal
and
conservative
law
firms
among
the
top
150,
2025
edition
[Excess
of
Democracy]
Big
Law
Leans
Left—and
Is
Moving
Further
Left,
Research
Shows
[Bloomberg
Law]
Which
law
firms
are
most
conservative
and
most
liberal?
See
the
ranking
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