Lobbying Revenue – 2015 1st Quarter
First quarter earnings reports posted this week showed gains for many of Washington’s biggest lobby shops, as compared with the first three months of 2014, prompting optimism on K Street that 2015 will be a big year.
Here’s a look at how the top 20 lobbying firms fared in the first quarter after Republicans seized control of the Senate and tightened their grip on the House in November.
| Lobbying Firm | 2015 1st Quarter | 2014 1st Quarter | Percent change |
| Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld | 9.60 | 8.57 | 12% |
| Squire Patton Boggs | 6.58 | 9.39 | -30% |
| Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck | 5.83 | 5.48 | 6% |
| Podesta Group | 5.60 | 6.63 | -16% |
| Van Scoyoc Associates | 4.84 | 4.77 | 1% |
| Holland & Knight | 4.81 | 4.8 | 0% |
| K&L Gates | 4.65 | 4.54 | 2% |
| Williams & Jensen | 4.41 | 4.37 | 1% |
| BGR Group | 4.30 | 3.43 | 25% |
| Capitol Counsel | 4.30 | 4.14 | 4% |
| Covington & Burling | 3.81 | 2.93 | 30% |
| Cornerstone Government Affairs | 3.71 | 3.02 | 23% |
| Peck Madigan Jones* | 3.25 | 3.40 | -4% |
| Alpine Group* | 3.16 | 2.65 | 19% |
| Cassidy & Associates | 3.15 | 3.03 | 4% |
| Hogan Lovells | 3.14 | 3.13 | 0% |
| Fierce Government Affairs | 3.12 | 3.00 | 4% |
| Capitol Tax Partners | 3.11 | 3.07 | 1% |
| Mehlman Castagnetti Bingel Rosen & Thomas |
2.82 | 2.81 | 0% |
| Alston & Bird | 2.57 | 2.72 | -6% |
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All figures are in the millions of dollars * Calculated by The Hill |
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