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There's a shake-up happening on K Street, one of Washington, D.C.'s busiest corridors and a long-standing metonym for the city's influence industry. For decades, the lobbying sector has been dominated by large and long-established law firms like Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Akin Gump, and Holland & Knight and consultants like Cornerstone Government Affairs that have collectively raked in billions of dollars in lobbying revenue. Since 2015, in fact, no firm has managed to bring in more lobbying revenue than either Brownstein or Akin in any given year.