In 2000, Ring went to work for Jack Abramoff at Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP, the lobbying arm of the law firm Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, based in Seattle. A year later, he followed Abramoff to Florida-based law firm Greenberg Traurig, where he worked until October 2004. In 2002 and 2003, he was named a "Top Rainmaker" by "The Hill" newspaper in its annual rankings of Washington's premier lobbyists. In 2004, his book, "Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice", was published.