Career
Kevin Hamilton’s election and political law experience includes recounts, election contests, redistricting, Voting Rights Act litigation, campaign finance issues, and the administration of elections. Kevin represented the Harris-Walz campaign and the Democratic National Committee in the 2024 election cycle in pre-election litigation and preparation for potential post-election recounts and contests. Kevin has represented numerous candidates in statewide recounts, including the Biden-Harris campaign in the 2020 recounts in Georgia and post-election litigation in Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, Minnesota, and elsewhere. Kevin has handled recounts for Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema (2018), North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (2016), Minnesota Senator Al Franken (2008), Washington Governor Christine Gregoire (2004), and Washington Senator Maria Cantwell (2000).
Kevin has represented Democrats in litigation challenging congressional and state legislative redistricting plans in Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia.
Kevin has been involved throughout the country in voting rights litigation over the use of drop boxes, voter registration restrictions, ballot receipt deadline, signature match requirements, voter identification requirements, restrictions on ballot collection, challenges to long lines, and a variety of other election related issues. Kevin has appeared in court in voting rights cases in Arizona, Georgia, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, New York, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Nevada, Montana, and Washington.
Kevin is also a top-rated, Chambers-ranked labor and employment lawyer who has advised some of the largest and most sophisticated clients in the country, including Amazon.com, Starbucks, Microsoft, The Boeing Company, Puget Energy, the Seattle Seahawks, the Portland Trail Blazers, Vulcan Inc., Eddie Bauer, Intellectual Ventures, F-5 Networks, Outdoor Voices, Helly Hansen, Alpha Technologies, and J. Crew, among many others. Kevin has practiced for more than 35 years, handling critical issues of the modern workplace through counseling, negotiation, and litigation. Kevin has extensive experience with noncompetition, trade secret, discrimination, multiple-plaintiff, and wrongful discharge litigation.
Kevin has broad and significant trial experience and has represented clients in litigation in 16 states, including California, New York, Washington, and Texas. His extensive trial experience earned him election as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and to the prestigious American Law Institute.
