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Adams and Reese ranks among the nation’s top-performing lobbying firms in a 2022 report published by Bloomberg Government.

Lobbying spending in Washington reached a new high of $4 billion in 2022, continuing a multiyear streak driven by legislation aimed at climate change, infrastructure, manufacturing, among other key issues.

In its eighth year ranking law firms’ lobbying performance, Bloomberg Government analyzed Lobbying Disclosure Act reports from all 2,105 registered lobbying firms that filed with the Senate during 2022.

This annual report focuses on firms that reported $1 million or more in revenue and lobbying activity in each quarter of the year. The data was filtered by five business performance metrics: growth in revenue, growth in average revenue per client, short- and long-term customer retention rates, and revenue per registered lobbyist.

Adams and Reese Government Relations attorneys and advisors represent companies, individuals, municipalities and other governmental entities, universities, nonprofits, and regional coalitions, on a range of GR needs. These issues can involve lobbying at the federal, state, and local levels; congressional oversight; bringing interests before government departments, agencies and legislative bodies; research and policy analysis; drafting or delivering of testimony; preparation and distribution of advocacy material; grassroots support; and complete understanding of regulatory issues, tax codes, public and private finance, economic development incentives, and the many multi layers of the matrix that make up the intersection of business and government.

Many attorneys on the Adams and Reese GR team formerly served in government roles – as legislators, government staff members, and other public officials -- giving the firm’s attorneys and advisors insight into legislative challenges that businesses need to overcome to move forward. The team tracks and analyzes legislation and regulatory issues that carry ramifications for clients across all industries.

Adams and Reese is an AmLaw 200 and NLJ 500 law firm with nearly 300 attorneys and advisors practicing across 20 offices and 10 states, including Washington, DC.