“Election Lawyers Pocket $10 Million From Obama & Romney”
Bloomberg reports.
Category Archives: election law biz
“How Co-Publishing Helped Spread News21 Investigation into Voter Fraud”
Interesting: Ohio Hires Wiley Rein to Defend in Military Voting Case
Columbus Dispatch: “William Consovoy, an attorney representing Secretary of State Jon Husted, noted, for example, that military members get their absentee ballots earlier than the rest of Ohioans.”
Consovoy is an accomplished appellate practitioner at Wiley, Rein. I have… Continue reading
“News21 and the New Generation of Journalist Election Geeks”
Retired Judge Scotland Joins Nielsen Merksamer “Of Counsel”
Press release: “Arthur G. Scotland, former Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, has joined Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni LLP as ‘Of Counsel’ effective August 8, 2012. Scotland, who retired from the bench in… Continue reading
“Center for Competitive Politics Expands Litigation Team”
See this release.
Big Election Law Scholar News: Cain to Stanford
Bruce Cain, of the UC Berkeley Political Science Department and the UCDC Center, is moving to Stanford in 2013. He is the director designate for the Bill Lane Center for the American West and in the political science department… Continue reading
“Lawyers Raking in Cash as Campaign Spending Hits Records”
The second article in the Bloomberg series, on “Making Millionaires” in the 2012 election.
“Q&A: Jerry Goldfeder”
This item appears in the NY Law Journal.
Election Law Academics Update
Here’s my yearly roundup of election law academic hires, promotions moves, visits, accolades.
Micah Altman joined MIT Libraries as Director of Research.
Guy Charles (Duke) was named the Charles S. Rhyne Professor of Law.
Chris Elmendorf decided to remain… Continue reading
Brennan Center Elections Attorney Monica Youn — Also a Poet
“For Election Geeks of All Political Stripes”
Nice shoutout about ELB from NCSL, which cautions that not everyone will agree with “Hasen’s slant.” As my inbox can attest!
“MacArthur Grants to Support Campaign Finance Research, Information Sharing, and Efforts to Improve Elections Process”
Must be some happy people in the campaign finance reform world today.
Super Lobbyist Nick Allard to Become Brooklyn Law School Dean
Congratulations Nick!