The five remaining U.S. presidential candidates all have a need for outside counsel on the campaign trail, and not surprisingly it’s the two frontrunners that have accrued the most in legal expenses.
Below are the official names of each remaining presidential campaign registered with the Federal Elections Commission and their legal billings of note through April 20. After scrolling through several months of FEC filings, The Am Law Daily found that Jones Day and its work for Trump narrowly edges out Perkins Coie, which is advising Hillary Clinton, in the race for top legal biller. Several months still remain in this election cycle, of course, including a potentially litigious delegate fight on the Republican side this summer.
