Varoon Modak is counsel at Olson Remcho, where he advises federal and state candidates, political party committees, PACs, ballot measure committees, and nonprofits on federal and state campaign finance, lobbying, ethics, and nonprofit tax law, and other related matters.
Varoon previously served as Senior Counsel on the Harris for President campaign, in which capacity he was the campaign’s primary attorney responsible for all campaign finance and ballot access-related matters. Prior to the campaign, he was an attorney in two of the nation’s largest political law practice groups at the Elias Law Group LLP and Perkins Coie LLP, where he advised a broad range of clients including presidential, Senate, and House campaigns, federal and state PACs, and the three national Democratic Party committees. He has represented clients before the Federal Election Commission, Fair Political Practices Commission, Office of Congressional Ethics, and House and Senate Ethics Committees, as well as in ballot access litigation and recount proceedings.
Varoon is a 2013 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, and earned his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the California Political Attorneys Association, and admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia.