About Us
Law Forward exists to protect and strengthen democracy in Wisconsin. Law Forward stands for a fair, transparent, and truly representative government – where every vote counts and everyone’s voice is heard.
What We Do
At Law Forward, Wisconsin’s only nonprofit pro-democracy law firm, we fight every day to revitalize our democracy and expand our rights under the Wisconsin Constitution. With the support of people like you, we’ve achieved major victories for the residents of Wisconsin. In 2023, we overturned the nation’s most extreme partisan gerrymander, putting Wisconsin on a path to restore truly representative government. In 2024, we overturned the anti-union Act 10 law, which will revitalize a bedrock democratic institution and usher in a new era of labor rights.
We hold bad actors to account. With a novel civil suit in 2022, we exposed that the fraudulent-elector scheme was cooked up here in Wisconsin and then spread to other states. With a 100-page complaint to the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation, we held former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman accountable for ethical abuses during his sham “investigation” into the 2020 election. In 2025, we are challenging Wisconsin’s congressional maps as an anti-competitive gerrymander. In June, we filed suit alleging that billionaire Elon Musk and affiliated entities violated multiple Wisconsin laws—including the election-bribery statute—during the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election. We look forward to bringing more transformative cases in the coming years.
Challenged Wisconsin's gerrymandered maps - and won.
We filed an original action with the Supreme Court of Wisconsin challenging the nation’s most extreme gerrymander because equal weight should be given to all Wisconsinites’ voices. We won, and on Feb. 19, 2024, Gov. Evers signed the fist non-gerrymandered maps in over a decade. The new Wisconsin Legislature, sworn in on January 6, 2025, more closely matches the will of the people.
Held election deniers accountable.
The coordinated and deliberate effort to subvert the will of the voters following the November 2020 elections must never happen again. We brought a first-of-its-kind civil suit against Wisconsin’s fake electors and the attorneys who orchestrated the scheme. We’ve also filed grievances with the Office of Lawyer Regulation against Michael Gableman, James Troupis, and Andrew Hitt. We will continue to monitor the actions of other election deniers and their efforts to disrupt Wisconsin elections.
Overturned the anti-union Act 10 law.
We obtained a court ruling striking down the anti-union policies passed in 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, restoring the fundamental human right of collective bargaining to all workers in our state’s public-sector unions–themselves a Wisconsin innovation generations ago.
Protected free, fair elections.
Every election cycle, we battle in state and federal courts to expand voting rights and to repel efforts by those committed to narrowing those rights and limiting participation in our elections. Every vote, and every voter, must count!
Our Team
Law Forward opened in 2020 with a mission of protecting democracy. We started with one staff attorney organizing historic and successful anti-gerrymandering litigation. Today, Law Forward has grown and works on multiple fronts to protect our freedoms, fighting for a state where everyone can participate in free and fair elections and where their votes matter.
