Elias Law Group

What Elias Law Group does

Elias Law Group LLP is a Washington, D.C.-based political law and litigation firm founded by Marc Elias in 2021. It is a privately held limited liability partnership operating as a mission-driven boutique focused exclusively on the Democratic Party ecosystem, serving Democratic campaigns, party committees, elected officials, and progressive nonprofit organizations. The firm employs 101-250 people across offices in Washington, D.C. and Seattle, WA, and has built out a full executive team including a COO, CFO, Chief People Officer, and Chief of Staff.

The firm delivers services through three core practice areas. The Political Law practice provides campaign finance, government ethics, lobbying disclosure, and compliance counsel, with partners serving as General Counsel to the DSCC, DCCC, and other major Democratic committees. The Litigation practice focuses on voting rights, redistricting, and constitutional law in state and federal courts; its attorneys have argued and won cases at the U.S. Supreme Court, including Allen v. Milligan, Moore v. Harper, and Watson v. RNC, and led the 50-state redistricting strategy following the 2020 census. The Election Protection Intelligence Collaborative (EPIC) is a newer practice that conducts hyper-local election administration research and tracking, including the North Carolina absentee ballot cure program that cut rejection rates from 6.1% to under 1% between 2018 and 2020.

Revenue is generated through professional services fees billed to Democratic campaigns, party organizations, political committees, and progressive nonprofits; pricing is per-engagement and not publicly disclosed. The firm has been recognized by Chambers USA as Band 1 for Political Law for four consecutive years (2023-2026). Marc Elias, the Firm Chair, has personally won four U.S. Supreme Court cases and over 60 post-2020 election matters, and the firm has collectively represented hundreds of Democratic campaigns, every national Democratic Party organization, and over a dozen presidential campaigns.

Name

Elias Law Group

Legal name

Elias Law Group LLP

Website

https://elias.law

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Elias Law Group is a Washington, D.C.-based political law firm founded by Marc Elias in 2021, representing Democratic campaigns, party committees, elected officials, and progressive nonprofits through political law counsel, voting rights and redistricting litigation, and election administration intelligence.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Political Law Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (541110)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Civil Liberties & Constitutional Rights Advocacy (BPAGAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Litigation Support & Expert Witness Services (BPAHALAG)

Keywords

• Political law services
• Voting rights litigation
• Redistricting litigation
• Campaign finance compliance
• Election law counsel

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Legal Services Revenue: The firm generates revenue through legal services billed to Democratic campaigns, party organizations, political committees, and progressive nonprofits. Services include political law counsel, litigation, campaign finance compliance, and redistricting work.

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Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Elias Law Group is a boutique political law firm that provides legal counsel and litigation services to Democratic campaigns, political party committees, progressive PACs, nonprofits, and ballot initiative campaigns. The firm advises clients on voting rights, redistricting, campaign finance compliance, election protection, and nonprofit governance, and represents clients in federal and state courts, including before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Product overview

Elias Law Group is a mission-driven law firm offering legal services through three core practice areas: Political Law (campaign finance, ethics, and nonprofit counsel), Litigation (voting rights, redistricting, and constitutional law), and EPIC (election protection intelligence). The firm serves Democratic campaigns, political organizations, nonprofit entities, and progressive causes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Political Law Practice
• Litigation Practice
• Nonprofit Counsel

Quantifiable outcome

• Helped millions of Americans register to vote, cast their ballot, and have that ballot counted
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• National Redistricting FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for redistricting and voting rights cases. The firm partners with the National Redistricting Foundation on major litigation including the 2020 census challenge and Florida redistricting cases.
• Mississippi Center for JusticecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on Watson v. RNC Supreme Court case defending mail voting rights. The Mississippi Center for Justice partnered with Elias Law Group representing Vet Voice Foundation and Mississippi Alliance for Retired Americans.
• Graybill Law FirmminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on Montana SB 490 challenge to defend Election Day registration. Graybill Law Firm worked alongside Elias Law Group attorneys on behalf of Montana Federation of Public Employees.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Holland & Knight: Holland & Knight is a large full-service firm with a political law and election law practice. It serves campaigns, party committees, and PACs as one of many practice areas, and competes for the same Democratic institutional clients as Elias from a much broader base.
• Covington & Burling: Covington is a large, elite full-service firm with a public policy and election law practice. It represents campaigns, parties, and politically active organizations and competes for high-end political-law mandates from a much broader practice base than Elias.
• Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath: Faegre Drinker is a large full-service firm with a political law practice serving campaigns, PACs, and trade associations. Like other broad incumbents, it competes for the same institutional clients as Elias while offering significantly deeper geographic and practice breadth.
• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: Akin Gump has a prominent public law and policy practice that includes election law, campaign finance, and government ethics. It serves many of the same types of institutional clients as Elias from a substantially larger, more diversified platform.
• Wiley Rein: Wiley Rein has a regulatory and political law practice advising clients on campaign finance, lobbying, and election-related issues. It is broader than Elias but competes in adjacent work, particularly around FCC and communications-related political matters.

Direct peers

• Caplin & Drysdale: Caplin & Drysdale has a long-standing political law and nonprofit tax practice representing Democratic campaigns, PACs, and 501(c) organizations. Like Elias, it combines campaign finance compliance, ethics, and tax counsel for politically active clients.
• Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock: Sandler Reiff is the leading Republican-side political law firm and Elias's direct ideological counterpart. Both firms focus on campaign finance, election law, and redistricting, and both represent the full institutional ecosystem of their respective parties — making them mirror-image direct peers.
• Perkins Coie: Perkins Coie is the historical dominant political law firm for Democratic clients and is the most direct competitor. Multiple Elias partners (Reese, Madduri, Sharkey, Stafford) came directly from Perkins Coie, and the firms compete for the same Democratic campaigns, committees, and nonprofit clients.
• Steptoe LLP: Steptoe maintains a recognized political law practice advising campaigns, parties, and PACs on campaign finance, lobbying disclosure, and election law — closely aligned to Elias's Political Law practice and frequently competing for the same institutional clients.

Others

• Democracy Docket: Democracy Docket is a media and advocacy platform also founded by Marc Elias that tracks voting rights and election law. It is not a direct legal competitor but is a strategically adjacent entity — sharing the founder, audience, and issue area — and is referenced in the firm's materials as part of the broader ecosystem Elias leads.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles32 records

Funding overview

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