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Q. What is LobbySearch?
A. LobbySearch is a Web-based directory of lobby firms and lobbyists designed to help clients identify advocates who can effectively represent their interests before the federal government or in state capitals. Use the search tools to find firms and individuals with expertise in certain issue areas, experience on a particular congressional committee or at a state capital, ties to a political party or legislative leader, and so on. For more details, see Guided Search.
Q. Who created LobbySearch?
A. LobbySearch is a service of Influence, the only publication and Web site (Influence.biz) focused on the business of lobbying. Influence was founded in June 2000 by Legal Times, an award-winning weekly newspaper that has reported since 1978 on law and lobbying in the nation's capital. Legal Times is part of ALM.
Q. When is a firm added to LobbySearch?
A. LobbySearch is a work in progress, with new firms and lobbyists added each week to the database. We'll continue building the database to include federal and state lobbyists from throughout the United States (and potentially in international capitals). For details about adding your firm, click here.
A firm or lobbyist is added to the database when:
- a firm or lobbyist asks that data be included;
- a firm files a federal lobby registration; or
- reporters at Influence identify or write about a firm or lobbyist.
Q. Why is more information provided about certain firms and individuals than about others?
A. A basic listing for a firm or individual is provided free of charge; for an enhanced listing, there is a fee. The basic listing for a firm includes firm name, address, phone, and those practice areas in which the firm has expertise. Names of a firm's lobbyists are not part of the basic listing, nor are there links to any individual listings.
Many firms have opted to pay for an enhanced listing. This adds a practice description (provided by the firm), a list of clients, a link to the firm's Web site, a logo, a list of advocacy professionals at the firm, links to biographical data about those individuals, and a list of representative clients. These additional details can improve a firm's chances of showing up in search results on both LobbySearch and on Influence.biz. In addition, those with enhanced listings are displayed at the top of search results. For information about enhancing your firm's listing, click here.
Q. How is LobbySearch different from Influence.biz?
A. LobbySearch is an open site, available to the public without charge, and its primary feature is the database of lobby firms and lobbyists. Influence.biz is a password-protected site, for paying subscribers and those with temporary trial access, and it offers three main components, tightly integrated and linked:
- news and analysis about the business of lobbying;
- a database of more than 12,000 federal lobby registrations (all those filed since April 2000); and
- LobbySearch Pro, a more detailed version of the database of lobby firms and lobbyists found on LobbySearch (including profiles of hundreds of in-house corporate and trade-association lobbyists).
For more information about Influence, visit www.influence.biz. Or sign up for a free five-day trial.
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