Lobbying Firm 

  Third Quarter 
 2009 

 Third Quarter
2008   

  % Difference 

 Patton Boggs

10.9 

9.3 

16% 

 Akin Gump

 7.6

 9.1

 -16%

Van Scoyoc Associates

6.9

 6.4

 8%

 Podesta Group

 6.9

 4.3

 60%

  Brownstein
Hyatt Farber
Schreck

 6.2

 4.0

55% 

 Cassidy & Associates 

 5.7

 5.9

 -3%

  Holland & Knight

 5.5

 3.8

 45%

  Ogilvy
Government Relations

 5.2

 4.4

 18%

Dutko Worldwide   

 4.8

 5.0

 -4%

 K&L Gates 

 4.6

 3.6

 28%

 Williams & Jensen

 4.2

2.9

 45%

 BGR Holdings

 3.7

4.7

 -21%

 Quinn Gillespie

 3.4

 3.9

 -13%

Cornerstone
Government
Affairs 

 3.3

2.6

 14%

 Alcalde & Fay

 2.8

 2.6

 8%

 Mehlman
Vogel
Castagnetti

2.8

 2.3

 22%