Lobbying client

WILLIAMS & LAKE, LLC

Distribution of Automotive Products

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 7 of its records are shown together here.

Filings
118
Filed by
7
Reported in-house
$183,500
Reported by firms
$2,030,000

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 2019 to 2026

Filings

118 filings, newest first.
Filing Filed by Amount
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2026
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD $90,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2026
WILLIAMS & LAKE, LLC — reported
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2026
ACORN CONSULTING $15,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2026
MR. TIMOTHY MCGUIRE — reported
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2026
MWR STRATEGIES, INC. $30,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report
2nd Quarter 2026
MCWILLIAMS GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS CONSULTANTS $20,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report
2nd Quarter 2026
WILLIAMS & LAKE, LLC — reported
2nd Quarter - Report
2nd Quarter 2026
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD $90,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report
2nd Quarter 2026
ACORN CONSULTING $15,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report
2nd Quarter 2026
MWR STRATEGIES, INC. $30,000 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
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD 10 $810,000
K&L GATES, LLP 9 $460,000
MWR STRATEGIES, INC. 12 $360,000
MCWILLIAMS GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS CONSULTANTS 12 $220,000
WILLIAMS & LAKE, LLC In-house 15 $183,500
ACORN CONSULTING 12 $180,000
MR. TIMOTHY MCGUIRE 31 —

Issues lobbied

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

IssueCodeMentions
Transportation TRA 92
Automotive Industry AUT 53
Budget/Appropriations BUD 12
Roads/Highway ROD 1
Manufacturing MAN 1

Bills named in its filings

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

BillCongressTimes named
H.R. 1361 119th 28
H.R. 5455 118th 23
S. 3092 118th 12
S. 2290 119th 5
S. 2437 118th 5
H.R. 4820 118th 5
H.R. 3293 116th 5
H.R. 3163 116th 3
S. 2520 116th 2
H.R. 2 116th 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.