In the UK, we have a fairly toothless requirement to register if you lobby the government for pay and it’s not done incidentally to your main activity which is not lobbying.
Exactly when a law firm is required to register vs. occasionally addressing government people on behalf of their clients is blurry but if you are required to register that includes disclosing who you are lobbying for.
That supersedes client confidentiality for solicitors.
In his case, I couldn’t say from the description on the old website whether that involved lobbying or whether it is what it says - advisory work.
The Intercept and Cory’s summary give a rather distorted picture by prominently mentioning his Goldman Sachs lobbying without making it clear that the clients he is declining to disclose are not in relation to his time at Goldman Sachs.
He was at Goldman Sachs 2004-2008.
There may be plenty to criticise him for but declining to disclose details of who he acted for as a lawyer is not one of them.
