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Paul, Weiss Election Protection Efforts Featured in The American Lawyer
October 15, 2020
Paul, Weiss was featured in a recent article in The American Lawyer highlighting the key law firms involved in voting and election lawsuits and other election protection efforts currently underway around the country. The article, published on October 15, highlighted the firm’s pro bono work in the run-up to Election Day and beyond, including staffing the Election Protection Hotline, serving as poll observers on Election Day, and a team dedicated to becoming experts in the byzantine rules of counting and challenging ballots in the states where there are likely to be legal clashes over the election results. “The value we could add is where the rubber meets the road: What’s going to happen at the polls as well as the processing and counting of ballots,” litigation partner Bob Atkins, who also co-chairs the Brennan Center for Justice, told the publication.
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