Jenner & Block and Jessica Ring Amunson, chair of the firm’s Election Law and Redistricting Practice, is featured in Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession’s magazine The Practice. Titled “Firm Believers,” the piece notes the growth of election law and political practices at law firms. Ms. Amunson provides insight into Jenner & Block’s Election Law and Redistricting Practice, which was founded by Partner Sam Hirsch in the 1990s. The group’s representations include elected officials, election or redistricting commissions, party committees, nonprofits, and voters in cases involving redistricting, voting rights, and campaign finance before state and federal courts and congressional bodies. When asked about growing the practice, she highlights the firm’s values of excellence, collaboration, and collegiality, noting that the group “care[s] a lot about justice and making sure that we are on the right side of history in terms of the fight for the right to vote and the fight against voter suppression and election sabotage issues.”
The author observes that election litigation can move up through the courts quickly and notes that Ms. Amunson’s role as co-chair of Jenner & Block’s Appellate and Supreme Court Practice frequently proves fortuitous. This past year, the firm represented Katie Hobbs, the Arizona secretary of state, in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee which involved the application of the Voting Rights Act to two Arizona policies that disparately impacted minority voters. Ms. Amunson argued the case and reflected that she has “spent many years dedicated to and trying to protect the right to vote, so being able to actually argue in defense of the Voting Rights Act in front of the Supreme Court was a real honor.”
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