Adam C. Bonin, Esq.

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Adam C. Bonin is the founder of The Law Office of Adam C. Bonin, where his practice 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, party entities, 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.

His pro bono work includes advising the Democracy Law Project at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he helped initiate the nonpartisan Penn Votes Project to assist hospitalized voters in exercising their right to vote. For over twenty years, he has served as a volunteer judge for the John S. Bradway High School Mock Trial Competition, in which he competed during his own high school days.

In 2019, he was appointed to the Leaders Council of the Legal Services Corporation, which helps raise public awareness across the country on the crisis in civil legal aid and the importance of providing equal access to our justice system to low-income Americans.

Adam earned his bachelor of arts degree in political science magna cum laude from Amherst College in 1994. He earned his law degree from The University of Chicago Law School in 1997, where he served as comment editor of The University of Chicago Legal Forum. While in law school, Adam was a student attorney at the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic and studied election law under then-Professor Barack Obama.

He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, before the Supreme Court of the United States and United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and all federal district courts within the Commonwealth.

Mr. Bonin was appointed to the Board of Law Examiners on February 23rd, 2024, commencing on April 1, 2024 for a period of three years.