Election Law
We litigate elections. Ballot access and election administration, recounts and contests, constitutional and statutory challenges to voting rules, First Amendment challenges to regulation of political speech, and the campaign finance investigations and enforcement proceedings related to elections. Campaigns, committees, parties, candidates, nonprofits, consultants, and voters all face this work on timelines measured in hours or days. Our attorneys have handled it at that pace, repeatedly, and we know what a court can realistically be asked for on an emergency schedule.
Our Experience
Stephanie Command and Courtney Elgart both practiced in the Political Law Group at Perkins Coie. They handled dozens of matters arising from the 2020 general election, litigating constitutional and statutory claims in state and federal courts across the country on emergency schedules. They litigated cases in California, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Stephanie Command tried a nine-day bench trial that resulted in a judgment striking down newly enacted voting restrictions in Montana and challenged restrictions on voter registration and mail-in voting in Texas. She also defended a political consulting firm in a First Amendment action concerning state efforts to address election misinformation, obtaining dismissal of the claims against the firm.
Courtney Elgart was part of the trial and appellate team that defended the Nevada result against an election contest alleging widespread fraud. She deposed three sitting members of Congress and elicited an admission that a federal trial court relied on in granting summary judgment in a Pennsylvania action. She also represented a candidate in an election contest in New York, the reelection campaign and transition committee of a major metropolitan mayor, a nonprofit in a state-level campaign finance investigation, and a criminal defendant in a campaign finance-related prosecution.
Their clients in this area have included political parties, national campaign committees, candidates, voting rights organizations, nonprofits, political consultants, and individual voters.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.