Overview

White Brenner LLP is one of only a handful of California law firms that handle cases in the following areas as a main emphasis of the firm:

• Ballot Measures
• Campaign Finance
• Referenda
• Lobbying and Placement Agents
• Gifts and Public Official Travel
• Election Law

Attorneys at White Brenner LLP have previously served as General Counsel to the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) and one of our attorneys currently serves on the Executive Committee of the California Political Attorneys Association. In the past 15 years, White Brenner LLP’s attorneys have acted as lead counsel on numerous statewide and local initiatives and referenda, including the largest independent expenditure campaign in California history. The firm’s attorneys routinely handle compliance issues for legislative candidates and officeholders. The firm has also litigated political law issues in state and federal court, including the California Supreme Court.

The firm’s attorneys provide strategic advice related to the initiative and referenda processes. The firm has comprehensive experience with California’s electoral process. White Brenner LLP’s attorneys have guided clients through the drafting, filing, publication and circulation of initiatives and referenda, and numerous challenges involving spending limits, ballot arguments, campaign regulations, election contests, election timing, ballot security, voter registration issues, candidate qualification and nomination procedures, ballot pamphlet issues, recall procedures, ballot recounts, election result contests and other post-election matters. With this breadth of experience, the firm advises its clients on all matters pertaining to regular, special and consolidated elections. The firm’s attorneys have a thorough understanding of California’s Political Reform Act, the Voting Rights Act, Proposition 208 and local campaign finance regulations.