Perkins Coie is one of the Obama reelection campaign’s biggest
vendors, generating just under $2.3 million in legal bills – a number that is
bound to shoot up even higher as Obama’s legal warfare escalates between now
and Election Day.

Pasted from a spreadsheet, below are my rough notes showing how I came up with the figure:

Expenditures by payee (Perkins Coie) according to Federal Election Commission website

Obama Aug 2012 monthly

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M8/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html

111,282.63

July monthly

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M7/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html

218,427.02

June monthly

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M6/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html

147,960.43

May monthly

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M5/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html

146,663.73

April monthly

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M4/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html

201,199.13

March monthly

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M3/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html

317,707.53

February monthly

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M2/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html

257,042.32

2012 subtotal 1,400,282.79 1,400,282.79

Year-End 2011 (4Q 2011)

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2011/YE/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html

168,367.29

3Q 2011

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2011/Q3/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html

248,953.65

2Q 2011

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2011/Q2/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html

101,838.31

1Q 2011

http://query.nictusa.com/pdf/954/11930700954/11930700954.pdf#navpanes=0

Jan. 31 1137.5

Feb. 11 69589.54

9-Mar 7781.8

9-Mar 69042.4

9-Mar 1137.5

9-Mar 12255.5

9-Mar 170

9-Mar 3894

2011 subtotal 684,167.49 684,167.49

2011 + 2012 subtotal 2,084,450.28

Debts by vendor, August 2012

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M8/C00431445/D_DEBTS_C00431445.html

201,221.17 201,221.17 201,221.17

subtotal 2,084,450.28

total 2,285,671.45