Ira Stoll, Future of Capitalism:

The New York state attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, won't accept campaign contributions from people with matters before his office. Conveniently enough, however, he will, and does, accept such contributions from their lawyers, Bloomberg News reports. ...

More: Baxter, AmLaw ("For the most part, [Skadden's Kenneth] Gross says that lawyers have always been exempted from restrictions on contributions."), Hallman/AmLaw Litigation Daily.