Jeffrey A. Mandell

One of Wisconsin’s leading election law litigators, Attorney Jeffrey A. Mandell has represented Governor Tony Evers in the bevy of challenges to the validity of Wisconsin’s November 2020 election, prosecuted the complaints that kept Kanye West and Howie Hawkins off of Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential ballot, and has represented voting rights groups and individuals in a whole series of high-stakes litigation to protect WIsconsin elections. Jeff also led the state constitutional challenge against the Wisconsin Legislature’s December 2018 lame-duck extraordinary session.

Jeff founded, and now serves as President and General Counsel of, Law Forward, a nonprofit, nonpartisan law firm that protects and advances democracy in Wisconsin. Before moving his practice to Law Forward full time, Jeff was a commercial litigator for more than fifteen years, at Bartlit Beck (Chicago), Jones Day (D.C.), and Stafford Rosenbaum (Madison). He is the current co-author of the definitive treatise on the Wisconsin Fair Dealership Law, and he regularly counsels on issues under that law.

Jeff graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with high honors. Immediately after law school, Jeff served as a law clerk to the Honorable A. Raymond Randolph on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.