Upstart Conservative Law Firm Takes On the Administrative State

‘I don’t think that a lot of the big firms think about access to justice for conservative organizations,’ Chris Gober, founder of Lex Politica, said.

Former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the the agency's targeting of tea party groups, where she invoked her constitutional right not to incriminate herself. AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke

Many of America’s biggest law firms have a reputation for leaning left, leaving many conservatives at a disadvantage when seeking legal help.

To fill this gap, one Texas-based attorney joined with like-minded legal partners more than a decade ago to build a firm that today goes by the name of Lex Politica, one of several upstart legal boutiques that are building a reputation for serving conservative clients. This week, the firm scored a major victory representing Freedom Path, a nonprofit that claimed the IRS’s criteria for deciding which organizations could get nonprofit status were “constitutionally vague” and allowed the agency to discriminate against conservative groups.