BakerHostetler’s Political Law team guides clients through a constantly changing landscape of legal and regulatory challenges touching every element of the political process. Our clients run the gamut from corporate and nonprofit clients to state legislatures, municipalities, members of Congress, political parties, and both federal and state candidates. We help our clients comply with complex state and federal campaign finance regulations, protect the interests of candidates on Election Day and during the recounts and contests that can follow, counsel members of Congress on ethics and financial disclosure requirements, and litigate redistricting and Voting Rights Act cases all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Our deep bench enables the Political Law team to assist clients at every stage of the political process.
Redistricting and the Voting Rights Act
Each case presents unique legal and factual issues distinct from other types of litigation. Our team is poised to provide effective, efficient and economical representation in even the most politically contentious and legally complex redistricting and Voting Rights Act matters. Our team provides real-time counsel at every stage of the redistricting process to help clients cope with tight deadlines, adhere to strict or ambiguous legal requirements, interpret copious demographic and political data, and manage political tensions inherent in the redistricting process.
Our leading litigation team has served as counsel in Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wyoming, and we have helped clients prevail in the U.S. Supreme Court, before three-judge panels in U.S. district courts, in numerous state supreme courts, and in trial and appellate courts around the country.