David R. Fox is a Partner in Elias Law Group’s Litigation practice. With expertise in voting rights, ballot access, campaign finance, and redistricting cases, Mr. Fox assists pro-democracy clients with federal and state claims at the trial and appellate levels.
Mr. Fox was lead trial counsel for New Hampshire Youth Movement in its challenge to New Hampshire’s strict documentary-proof-of-citizenship law, which resulted in an injunction against the enforcement of a requirement that threatened to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters. Mr. Fox was also lead trial counsel for a group of Latino and Black Texans in their 2025 challenge to the State’s mid-decade revision of its congressional map.
Mr. Fox has also briefed and argued ballot access and voting-rights appeals in state supreme courts across the country. In 2026, he represented a Nebraska candidate for U.S. Senate in the Nebraska Supreme Court in her successful effort to require the Secretary of State to place her on the ballot. In 2024, he persuaded the Wisconsin Supreme Court to overrule precedent and allow municipalities to once again accept absentee ballots by drop box. Also in 2024, Mr. Fox argued four en banc appeals in the Nevada Supreme Court, more than any other lawyer in the country, where he prevailed in defending Nevada’s mail ballot receipt law and a reproductive rights ballot measure, and in invalidating a ballot initiative proposing a flawed redistricting commission.
Mr. Fox has argued voting rights cases in multiple federal courts of appeals, including in a successful challenge to a Florida anti-voting law in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and in a pending Ninth Circuit appeal involving a Twenty-Sixth Amendment challenge to Idaho’s elimination of student identification for voting.
Mr. Fox was recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for Appellate Practice in 2026. He was interviewed in Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance about his work on a campaign finance appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Fox clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and for Judge David J. Barron at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He graduated first in his class at The George Washington University Law School where he was a Managing Editor of the George Washington Law Review.
Mr. Fox is admitted to the District of Columbia, Virginia, Nevada, and Massachusetts bars. He works out of ELG’s Washington, D.C. office.