Brian Mellor didn’t intend to be a criminal defense lawyer when he went to law school some 28 years ago.

“I was going to use my legal skills to help people use the law,” says Mellor, senior counsel for Project Vote, which is organizing the legal defense of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. The embattled group’s voter registration efforts have forced him to use those skills in ways he never imagined.

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