Omeed Alerasool is an associate in the litigation practice group at Elias Law Group. He has represented civic and labor organizations, political campaigns, and individual voters in pro-democracy, free speech, and election-related lawsuits across the country, including before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Courts of Appeals for the Third, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits, various federal district courts, and the Supreme Courts of Arizona, Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as well as several state trial courts.
Representative Experiences:
- Represented Democratic Party committees as intervenors in defense of coordinated party expenditure limits before the U.S. Supreme Court in NRSC v. FEC.
- Obtained preliminary injunction against voter registration wet signature requirement in Arkansas federal court; affirmed on appeal in Get Loud Arkansas v. Jester (8th Cir. 2026).
- Successful constitutional challenge to mail ballot outer envelope dating requirement in Pennsylvania federal court; affirmed on appeal in Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections (3d Cir. 2025).
- Successful intervention and defense of ballot initiative language before Maine Supreme Court in Titcomb v. Secretary of State (Me. 2025).
- Successful challenge to absentee ballot drop box prohibition before Wisconsin Supreme Court in Priorities USA v. Wisconsin Election Commission (Wis. 2024).
- Intervened on behalf of civic organizations and obtained dismissal of right-wing voter purge lawsuits in Arizona and Pennsylvania.
- Successful defense in defamation litigation brought by former U.S. Senate candidate inWisconsin state court following 2024 election.
Omeed graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as cofounder and later president of the Equal Democracy Project, teaching fellow for the Election Law Clinic, and as two-term editor-in-chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. He received his undergraduate degree in economics and international studies from Boston College. Before joining ELG, Omeed worked at the National Redistricting Foundation, Campaign Legal Center, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, Perkins Coie’s Political Law Group, and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, Voting Section.
Omeed is passionate about advancing democratic governance, civic discourse, and voting rights, and his commentary has appeared in The Hill and HuffPost, among other outlets. He is based out of Elias Law Group’s Washington, DC office.
Bar Licenses & Admissions:
- District of Columbia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Courts of Appeals: Third, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits
- U.S. District Courts: District of Columbia; District of Maryland; District of New Jersey; the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Pennsylvania; and the Western District of Wisconsin