{"id":5406,"date":"2025-04-22T04:57:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T04:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/kirkland-and-simpson-each-paid-100k-for-lobbyists\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T04:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T04:57:25","slug":"kirkland-and-simpson-each-paid-100k-for-lobbyists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/kirkland-and-simpson-each-paid-100k-for-lobbyists\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkland and Simpson Each Paid $100K for Lobbyists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Kirkland &amp; Ellis and Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett each turned to lobbying powerhouse Ballard Partners for \u201cadvice related to employment practices\u201d as they were forming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/nationallawjournal\/2025\/04\/15\/big-law-firms-face-deadlines-over-eeoc-and-congressional-inquiries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>deal <\/u><\/a>with the White House, according to new lobbying disclosures. Kirkland and Simpson Thacher each paid Ballard $100,000 for lobbying work on their firm&#8217;s behalf in the first quarter of this year, according to the new Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The registered lobbyists for Kirkland and Simpson included Brian Ballard, who founded Ballard Partners and was a top fundraiser for President Donald Trump, as well as partners Justin Sayfie and Sylvester Lukis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirkland &amp; Ellis and Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett each turned to lobbying powerhouse Ballard Partners for \u201cadvice related to employment practices\u201d as they were forming a deal with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1055,1496,5599,5598,733],"class_list":["post-5406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-100k","tag-kirkland","tag-lobbyists","tag-paid","tag-simpson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}