Harleen Gambhir is an associate in the Litigation practice group with expertise in redistricting and voting rights litigation. She has represented voters and non-profits challenging gerrymandered electoral maps and voter suppression laws that disenfranchise marginalized voters. At Elias Law Group, Harleen was on the team that won several lawsuits in the Ohio Supreme Court to strike down the state’s gerrymandered legislative and congressional maps.

Most recently, Harleen was Senior Counsel to Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). In that capacity, she served as the Senator’s lead advisor on administrative law, courts, democracy, executive power, consumer protection, and reproductive rights issues.

Harleen is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. During law school, she worked with several organizations focused on racial justice and democracy law, including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Protect Democracy, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the Brennan Center for Justice. She was also an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a member of the Harvard Defenders, a legal service organization representing low-income individuals in criminal show-cause hearings. Harleen clerked on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Prior to her career as an attorney, Harleen led the counterterrorism team at the Institute for the Study of War, a D.C.-based think tank. She made numerous media appearance in that capacity, including on CNN and MSNBC, and her writing appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Politico. Over the past decade, she has organized, volunteered, and provided voter protection for several Democratic campaigns.