Voting during the midterm elections in Baltimore, MD, on November 8, 2022. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM Big Law Firms Shape the Rules of Upcoming Election
Political committees and individual plaintiffs are tapping large law firms to set the terms of the upcoming election cycle.
August 29, 2024 at 07:25 PM
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Election and Political Law
The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer
What You Need to Know
- Big Law firms are nearly as active in pre-election litigation this year as they were in 2020.
- A majority of firms involved are representing causes associated with Democrats, while Republican plaintiffs have largely turned to smaller firms.
- Election administration and voting by mail remain top areas of contention.
In the wake of the historically litigious 2020 election cycle, legal and electoral scholars predicted that future elections would also be hotly contested in the courts in the run-up to election day.
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