Lobbying client

LIFESCAN INC

Manufacturer of diabetes equipment and supplies.

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 4 of its records are shown together here.

Filings
26
Filed by
4
Reported in-house
$395,000
Reported by firms
$310,000

These two are not added together. An organisation lobbying for itself reports its own spending, and the firms it retains report what they were paid; the rules ask the first to include the second, but filings do not always do so and a filing gives no way to tell. Each is shown as reported.

Reported lobbying by year

The larger of in-house and firm-reported each year, $ thousands 2007 to 2009

Filings

26 filings, newest first.
Filing Filed by Amount
2nd Quarter - Termination (No Activity)
2nd Quarter 2009
ALSTON & BIRD LLP — reported
2nd Quarter - Termination (No Activity)
2nd Quarter 2009
LIFESCAN, INC. — reported
1st Quarter - Report
1st Quarter 2009
ALSTON & BIRD LLP $30,000 reported
1st Quarter - Termination (No Activity)
1st Quarter 2009
DENTONS US LLP — reported
1st Quarter - Report (No Activity)
1st Quarter 2009
LIFESCAN, INC. — reported
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2008
ALSTON & BIRD LLP $30,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2008
LIFESCAN, INC. $45,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report (No Activity)
4th Quarter 2008
DENTONS US LLP — reported
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2008
LIFESCAN, INC. $70,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Amendment
3rd Quarter 2008
DENTONS US LLP $20,000 reported

Filed by

Each firm that has reported for this client, and the client itself where it lobbies in-house, with the reports filed and the amounts they disclose.

FirmReportsAmount
LIFESCAN, INC. In-house 7 $395,000
ALSTON & BIRD LLP 8 $250,000
DENTONS US LLP 4 $40,000
FAEGRE BAKER DANIELS CONSULTING 2 $20,000

Issues lobbied

How many report sections named each issue, counting the current version of each report.

Bills named in its filings

Bill numbers found in the filers' descriptions, most often named first.

BillCongressTimes named
H.R. 6331 110th 8
H.R. 5629 110th 4
H.R. 4218 110th 3
H.R. 5765 110th 3
H.R. 6252 110th 2
S. 3144 110th 2
H.R. 6381 110th 2
S. 2449 110th 1
H.R. 5361 110th 1

From reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Firms report what each client paid them; an organisation lobbying for itself reports its own expenses. Amounts count the current version of each report once.