"The selection of a lawyer can reveal a lot about a presidential campaign, not only its ideology but also its strategy and the resources it has to pursue that strategy since elite firms’ legal bills can cost campaigns as much as $50,000 a month during the primaries.
And, in the 2012 presidential race, lawyers figure to play a bigger role than ever, thanks to recent court and regulatory decisions that have empowered outside groups to play a perhaps unprecedented role in campaigns — and put a handful of Beltway lawyers in the tricky position of sometimes advising outside groups and candidates or parties that are legally barred from coordinating with one another."
Judge a campaign by its lawyer
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