Gregory Luke

Partner
GREGORY G. LUKE joined Strumwasser & Woocher after serving as staff
attorney with the ACLU of Southern California and the National Voting
Rights Institute in Boston. At the firm, Mr. Luke devotes much of his
practice to elections, civil rights, education, and local government litigation.
He led the firm's path‑breaking lawsuits to ensure the transparent
use of new voting technologies, generating the first judicial interpretation
of the critical recount provisions of Elections Code section 15630. Greg
also led the firm's multi-year litigation on behalf of the Los Angeles
Unified School District to secure the full measure of property tax revenues
due to schools under the Community Redevelopment Law, as well as litigation
to vindicate the hundred-million-dollar insurance policy obtained by the
District to support its historic school construction program. He advises
LAUSD and other local educational agencies around the state regarding
school funding, legislative drafting, and compliance with the Government,
Education, and Health and Safety Codes. Mr. Luke has secured court victories
for numerous candidates and political committees in connection with candidate
and initiative campaigns, and has successfully defended the rights of
individuals and citizens' groups under the anti‑SLAPP law. He has
also prevailed in varied litigation to enforce the rules governing public
contracting on behalf of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and other non-governmental
organizations.
Before moving to Los Angeles, Mr. Luke spent three years as Senior Staff
Attorney with the National Voting Rights Institute, where he specialized
in voting rights and campaign finance reform litigation. During this time,
he litigated in both federal and state courts around the country and co‑authored
Challenging Buckley v. Valeo: A Legal Strategy for the Akron Law Review
as well as other material published in Supreme Court Debates and the League
of Women Voters National Voter Magazine.
Before joining the National Voting Rights Institute, Mr. Luke spent two
years as an associate with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, in New York and
clerked for the Honorable Thomas K. Moore, Chief Judge of the U.S. District
Court of the Virgin Islands. He is admitted to practice before the courts
of California, New York, and Massachusetts.
Mr. Luke received his J.D. cum laude in 1994 from Harvard Law School and
a B.A. cum laude in East Asian Studies from Yale. As a Yale‑China Teaching
Fellow stationed at Hunan Medical University in the late 1980s, he became
fluent in Mandarin. In 2004, Mr. Luke was recognized as a "Rising
Star" by Super Lawyers magazine.