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Law Practice

Nov. 6, 2008

A Noisy but Fair Election Emerges Inside Nevada's Legal Command Center

Seven attorneys crammed into a tiny conference room in a downtown Las Vegas law office to help the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights ensure a fair election.

By Gabe Friedman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Seven attorneys crammed into a tiny conference room in a downtown Las Vegas law office to help the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights ensure a fair election.

It was an ad-hoc command center where a national hotline routed calls for disenfranchised voters in several Western swing states. From a collection of Blackberrys and cell phones laying on the conference table, the legal team scrambled to hear them...

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