In an election year, Kirkland & Ellis is leading a closely watched case that challenges far-reaching changes to election procedures in North Carolina enacted by the state legislature in 2013.
Among other things, the legislation cut a week off early voting, required photo identification for in-person voting and eliminated same-day registration and out-of-precinct voting. Commercial litigator Daniel Donovan heads a Kirkland team representing the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and voting rights activist Rosanell Eaton in a suit that argues that the law violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act.
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