The nation’s best-paid general counsel have a clear favorite in the presidential race: Barack Obama. In the run-up to the primary season, the Illinois senator received more money from the in-house legal elite than any other candidate. The Democratic contenders for the White House are doing well as a group, outraising Republican candidates by almost a 2-to-1 margin in the contest for GC cash.
These are just some of the findings from a Corporate Counsel review of Federal Election Commission data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based nonpartisan research group. Corporate Counsel is a sister publication of the Daily Report.
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