When Atlanta attorney Bruce Brown began representing a nonprofit organization suing Georgia election officials to force a return to paper ballot voting this fall, he waded into a case beset by squabbling plaintiffs who had already retained and discarded two law firms.

Brown, who’s had a solo practice in Atlanta since he left McKenna Long & Aldridge six years ago, picked up the case even though he won’t get paid unless his client, the Coalition for Good Governance, prevails.