GREGORY G. LUKE joined Strumwasser & Woocher after serving as staff attorney with the ACLU of Southern California.  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 guides the firm’s novel 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.  He 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.   

Before moving to Los Angeles, Mr. Luke spent three years as Senior Staff Attorney with the National Voting Rights Institute in Boston where he specialized in voting rights and campaign finance reform litigation. During this time, he co-authored Challenging Buckley v. Valeo: A Legal Strategy for the Akron Law Review as well as other material published in Supreme Court Debates, The Economist, 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. 

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