ELECTION LAW

Gerry has significant experience in political campaigns and in election law. He is legal counsel for Ayanna Pressley’s campaign, and several other local Massachusetts campaigns. Gerry was the Voter Protection Coordinator for Elizabeth Warren's successful election to the U.S. Senate in 2012 and for Marty Walsh's campaign for Mayor of Boston in 2013, as well as numerous statewide elections. Gerry worked on the recount in Palm Beach County in Florida in 2000 for the Gore-Lieberman campaign, and he has been a recount lawyer in several elections in Massachusetts.

Gerry represented the League of Women Voters in a successful challenge to a state term limits law and, as a pro bono attorney, drafted election reform legislation for MassVOTE. Gerry also served as an Election Commissioner for the City of Cambridge.

Gerry also has experience in election law at the international level. He has served as an election observer in Ukraine (2019), Northern Macedonia (2018), Kyrgyzstan (2017), Georgia (2016), Belarus (2015), and Bosnia-Herzegovina (2014).