Sara Fitzgerald, left, and Michael Martin, both with the group One Virginia, protest gerrymandering in front of the Supreme Court on March 28, 2018, in Washington where the court heard arguments on a gerrymandering case. Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP.
David Gersch resigned from the partnership at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer in 2012 to become senior counsel so he could have the freedom to pursue the matters he wanted. Last year, that decision allowed him to work on a case that could help shape electoral politics in the United States for the foreseeable future.
Gersch and partner Stanton Jones, both based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, were two of the many Big Law attorneys who took on cases in 2017 that sought to undo the effects of the gerrymandering that has left so many Americans squeezed into strangely shaped voting districts. The duo represented the League of Women Voters in a lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s congressional map. Not only did they secure a ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in January enjoining the old map, they also did it in time for the court to draw a new map that went into effect for this spring’s primary election. In a state with an all-male congressional delegation, seven Democratic women won House primaries and at least one woman is now guaranteed to break into the group.
