I pulled the FEC data for the DCCC, DNC, DSCC, NRCC, NRSC, and RNC from January 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022 to see where the major political party arms spend their money. I looked at any expenditure labeled legal, law, or attorney. I deduped and merged entries for this 15-month period. To start, here’s where Democratic-affiliated outlets spent money, to any outlet receiving at least $25,000 in this period. (It excludes internal spending or transfers.)

Firms with (a second state) in parentheses indicated that spending was labeled as being sent to another branch of that firm in that second state. Unfortunately, I cannot explain why identical amounts went to Ballard Spahr in two different states (there were not perfectly symmetrical transactions); I did not merge in case they are duplicates, but I left both there as a point of comparison.

Here are the firms on the Republican side. (Note more firms but smaller totals, and more spending that may not precisely align with “legal” expenditures but more media or press-related costs.)

Unfortunately, I had the same duplication problem with Wiley Rein and with King & Spalding.