Eric is deeply experienced in election-related litigation and appellate matters before state and federal courts and agencies.
He previously served as State Election Director and in-house counsel for the Arizona Secretary of State’s office, bringing his depth of knowledge to the firm’s election law and constitutional and political litigation practices. In his capacity as State Election Director, Eric served on the standards board for the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) for developing voting equipment guidelines and, by virtue of his security clearance, regularly consulted with federal and state officials on sensitive election and cybersecurity matters. Eric supervised dozens of litigation matters in state and federal courts as in-house counsel for the Secretary, including legislative redistricting litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court. Eric also focused on lobbying and government relations, having drafted and shepherded into law several high-profile bills through the Arizona Legislature. All told, Eric decided over 50 campaign finance complaints, supervised over 500 candidate filings, supervised review of over 1.8 million initiative signatures, and oversaw eight state and federal elections in his capacity as one of the state’s top election officials.
In private practice Eric regularly advises candidates, consultants, lobbyists, political action committees (PACs), ballot measure and independent expenditure committees, political parties, municipalities, corporations, election-related vendors, trade associations, and individual donors and political contributors. He also has experience forming and advising tax exempt organizations navigate through the political process, including conducting indendent expenditures.
Eric routinely advises on campaign finance compliance and reporting and handles complaints before the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Arizona Secretary of State’s office, Citizens Clean Elections Commission, and various local jurisdictions. He was the principal author of Arizona’s new body of campaign finance laws passed 2016 and is uniquely qualified to advise clients. He also has extensive experience advising clients with respect the Arizona Voter’s Right to Know Act, also known as Prop. 211.
Eric has extensive experience litigating initiative, referendum, and recall measures in state courts, buttressed by one of the few litigation teams capable of simultaneously challenging multiple statewide ballot measures.
Most recently, Eric co-served as redistricting counsel in Arizona following the 2020 decennial census. The resulting congressional and legislative maps produced almost no litigation for the first time in many decades of redistricting controversies.
Eric tries to remain a thought leader in the field of elections as well. Since 2000 he has served as co-chair of the Arizona State Bar’s annual election law seminar. In 2026, he co-authored the chapter on accelerated election appeals in the Arizona State Bar’s newly-released Appellate Handbook. He routinely appears as a guest speaker at Arizona universities and other election-related groups. Through Snell & Wilmer, he is a frequent author of election-related legal alerts and articles. In his personal capacity, Eric founded the Arizona Election Law Blog and provides regular legal updates at @azelectionlaw on X.