Adam Craig Bonin

After more than a decade’s experience at three of Philadelphia’s most-respected law firms, Adam C. Bonin formed his new practice in January 2012.

Adam extensively represents clients in campaign finance, election law, pay-to-play, and lobbying compliance matters and has been a leader in efforts on behalf of the rights of online speakers. In 2005-06, he led the fight and achieved a major victory before the Federal Election Commission on behalf of major political bloggers, securing significant new rights for speakers on the Internet to engage in online political speech and advocacy. He has been successful on both sides of ballot access battles, successfully representing candidates for office in defending their right to appear on the ballot as well as removing others from the ballot whose signatures had been procured fraudulently or unlawfully.

His practice today focuses on the representation of a variety of elected officials and candidates for office on the federal, statewide, and local levels, as well as corporate, labor, nonprofit, and other politically active entities on federal, state and municipal campaign finance, election law and regulatory compliance matters, including pay-to-play law and the regulation of lobbying activities. Adam served as deputy county counsel for Obama for America in the 2012 election, and was lead Election Day counsel for all courtroom matters. In addition, he served on the Rules Committee for the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

The Associated Press, , NPR, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Reuters, PoliticsPA, NBC10 Philadelphia and other media outlets regularly call upon Adam to comment on election law and political issues, and he writes regularly on these issues as a featured writer for the front page of DailyKos, America’s largest online political community. He regularly speaks at conferences and other major public events on these matters, including most recently gatherings hosted by the Brennan Center for Justice, the Campaign for America’s Future, the National LGBT Bar Association, and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.