Sentences with phrase «top lobbying firms»

The company has cut ties with top lobbying firms in Washington, including Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Squire Patton Boggs, and has brought on new advisors, Bloomberg reports.

It hired former state Rep. Jeff Barnhart, a Cabarrus County Republican, to lobby the Cabarrus School Board and also hired other lobbyists from McGuire Woods, one of the state's top lobbying firms.

The trial lawyers, who had a close relationship with former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, employ their own small army of top lobbying firms and spent a combined $ 687,700 on campaign contributions in 2015, making their organization, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the second largest donor in the state.

Lehal is a highly - regarded public affairs consultant who set up his agency in 2006, having previously worked at top lobbying firms Westminster Strategy and Edelman.

The top lobbying firms include many with ties to government leaders.

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP remained the state's top lobbying firm spending $ 10.3 million last year.

The top lobbying firm in Albany in 2015 was Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, which received $ 10.5 million in compensation and reimbursements.

The top lobbying firm is Wilson, Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, earning over $ 11 million.

After they were elected, Ms. Cunningham deregistered as a lobbyist to «avoid even the appearance of a conflict» of interest and resigned her job at a top lobbying firm.

The company's top lobbying firm, Capalino & Company, met personally with Adams five times, and during two of those meetings Airbnb representatives were present, according to DNAinfo.

DeRosa is the daughter of Giorgio DeRosa, a prominent Albany lobbyist and partner at Bolton St. Johns, a top lobbying firm.

And now top lobbying firm Edelman has joined in the fun once again - by signing up former Sun journalist and Conservative party adviser Craig Woodhouse.

Not only did he previously spend 10 years at top advertising agency M&C Saatchi, but before entering the Commons in 2010 he also worked for top lobbying firm Lexington Communications.

Not exact matches

In recent weeks, the team hired K Street lobbying firm McGuireWoods Consulting, a move that comes on top of the team's work with crisis management expert Lanny Davis.

(Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks, Des Moines, IA, 1/3/08) in fact A list of Obama's own top fundraisers features a number of people involved in the business of influencing government, including the head of a lobbying and public relations firm, the corporate executive who oversees Comcast's lobbying efforts and the chairwoman of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's political action committee, among others.»

Lynch founded the firm in 2001 and parlayed her connections to the speaker to make it one of Albany's top - earning lobbying houses.

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's top spokesperson, Dan Weiller, is leaving to join the lobbying firm of his predecessor.

Public records indicate that between January and June of this year, Genting spent $ 340,000 on lobbying, with $ 100,000 going to the Albany - based government - relations firm Meara Avella Dickinson; $ 25,000 going to Patricia Lynch and Associates, headed by the Assembly speaker's former top aide; $ 195,000 going to Cordo and Company; and $ 20,000 going to Empire Strategic Planning.

The city's top 10 lobbying firms used connections and insider knowledge to grow.

Later, Lasher would work as an aide to Congressman Jerrold Nadler, co-found SKDKnickerbocker — one of the state's top lobbying / consulting firms — and serve as director of state legislative affairs for the man who bested Green, Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

A top executive at an «incubator» office - space firm bundled the largest contribution to de Blasio's re-election bid from her bosses and others — while the company was lobbying the city over a Financial District conversion project.

(Tokasz now works for the lobbying firm of Pat Lynch, who was once a top aid to Speaker Sheldon Silver).

And Theresa Marangas, a partner at top Albany lobbying firm Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, had her firm fork over $ 68,857 to Cuomo's war chest.

The wife of a top aide to Gov. Cuomo has been quietly hired by one of New York's most aggressive lobbying and public - relations firms, which is now advertising her connections to Cuomo on its Web site, The Post has found.

Ride - hailing firm Uber Technologies was the top lobbying spender for the first half of 2017, a report released Wednesday by the ethics and lobbying regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found.

The state's top lobbying entity is changing law firms.

The appearance by Gov. Cuomo's top aide at a function being held by the lobbying firm that's been implicated in the Buffalo Billion investigation has been postponed.

Corning Place Consulting is the public affairs / communications arm of Hinman Straub, which routinely lands on the Top 10 list of highest - grossing NY lobbying firms.

In came Neal Kwatra, the well - regarded founder of Metropolitan Public Strategies, and Mercury Public Affairs, a top consulting and lobbying firm.

Managing partner Patrick Dunican confirms that «for the past nine years Gibbons has been named the top lawyer - lobbying firm in New Jersey.

It is one of the firm's top 10 lobbying clients so far in 2018, according to information from OpenSecrets.org cited by the National Law Journal.

In response to brutal legal aid cuts, a group of top law firms are preparing to launch a collaborative pro bono project to help those most vulnerable, as well as to lobby for a properly funded system.

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