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 both the trial and appellate levels.

Mr. Fox has particular experience in voting-rights and ballot-access litigation in state supreme courts. In 2024 alone, Mr. Fox argued six voting-rights and ballot-access appeals in three state supreme courts, including four en banc arguments at the Nevada Supreme Court—more than any other lawyer in the country. Mr. Fox’s arguments included the successful defense of a reproductive rights ballot measure in Nevada and the successful challenge to an absentee ballot drop box prohibition in Wisconsin. Mr. Fox has also argued in multiple federal courts of appeals, including a successful challenge to a Florida anti-voting law in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and has argued motions and tried cases in state and federal trial courts across the country.

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. Mr. Fox 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.