These lawyers understand how important it is to protect voter access on Election Day. Thank you!
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Almost every year, there’s an issue about a poll worker not showing up or delay in a polling station to be open… You have complaints about long lines of polling stations. I hope that what we are doing is providing a service to voters to ensure that they can go out and vote and understand that their votes will be counted.

— Jeff Wilhelm, counsel at Reed Smith, in comments given to the American Lawyer, on how he’s trying to coordinate logistics of the in-person command center for the national nonpartisan Election Protection voter hotline (866-OUR-VOTE) at the firm’s Pittsburgh office. The command center is charged with monitoring issues reported to the hotline and coordinating responses for escalated issues. Hundreds of lawyers hailing from Baker McKenzie; Cooley; Davis Polk; Dechert; Gibson Dunn; Lowenstein Sandler; Manatt Phelps & Phillips; Morgan Lewis; Mayer Brown; Proskauer Rose; Reed Smith; Stinson; and Wilmer Hale are staffing the Election Protection voter hotlines this Election Day.

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