Crawlable public-record ranking
Largest Outside Lobbying Firms in Paper Trail
Lobbying registrants ranked by latest-year income reported in synchronized federal LDA filings connected to tracked organizations.
Rankings describe records in the current Paper Trail dataset. They do not establish causation, influence, or misconduct, and coverage varies by source and reporting period.
- 1BALLARD PARTNERS2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$900K
- 2BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$600K
- 3MICHAEL BEST STRATEGIES LLC2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$430K
- 4CONTINENTAL STRATEGY, LLC2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$420K
- 5BGR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$420K
- 6MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$390K
- 7THEGROUP DC, LLC2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$380K
- 8AMERICAN DEFENSE INTERNATIONAL2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$380K
- 9ALPINE GROUP PARTNERS, LLC.2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$360K
- 10AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$350K
- 11HARBINGER STRATEGIES, LLC2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$340K
- 12THE NICKLES GROUP, LLC2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$300K
- 13WILLIAMS AND JENSEN, PLLC2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$250K
- 14KOUNTOUPES DENHAM CARR & REID, LLC2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$240K
- 15STRATEGIC MARKETING INNOVATIONS2026 outside-firm income linked to tracked organizations$220K
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The Paper Trail Project. “Largest Outside Lobbying Firms in Paper Trail.” Accessed November 7, 2026. https://www.papertrailproject.org/rankings/lobbying-firms
Sources: U.S. Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database. Verify consequential claims against the linked original records.