For some, news of a lawsuit seeking to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent campaign for president off the New Jersey ballot elicited one question: Who is Scott Salmon?

Salmon, an election lawyer and partner at Jardim Meisner Salmon Sprague & Susser in Florham Park, is both plaintiff and plaintiff’s counsel in the suit against Kennedy. His challenge to Kennedy’s candidacy could raise public awareness of Salmon, who has had a low profile in legal and political circles despite a run for Congress in 2018 and a challenge to the presidential candidacy of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, in 2020.