BIO

Chris Gober is a trusted legal adviser and problem solver for the toughest political, public policy, and regulatory challenges faced by ambitious and high-profile changemakers. His national practice is focused on constitutional and political litigation, government investigations and enforcement actions, and providing strategic advice and guidance to elected officials, companies, industry trade associations, and high-net-worth individuals. 

As the Founding Partner and CEO of Lex Politica, Gober oversees a national law firm focused on constitutional and political litigation, government investigations and enforcement actions, and providing strategic advice and guidance to elected officials, candidates, political committees, corporations, trade associations, nonprofits, and donors on all aspects of their participation in the political process. The firm’s clients include Elon Musk’s America PAC and dozens of U.S. Senators, Members of Congress, and Governors. The New York Times recently described Gober as the “swaggering Texas-based lawyer” building a conservative legal powerhouse, and other media outlets have written that Lex Politica has “emerged as the conservative legal powerhouse” that “wants to take all the cases liberals hate.”

He is a proven winner in courtrooms across the country, so Gober often gets the call when high-profile conservatives have a complex problem or case they can’t afford to lose.  

• Successfully represented Elon Musk and America PAC against politically charged lawsuits brought by the Democrat Attorney General in Wisconsin and the Democrat District Attorney in Philadelphia during the final days of the 2024 presidential election, stemming from their support for Donald Trump and the Constitution.
  
  

• Successfully represented Ken Paxton in the State Bar of Texas inquiry over allegations that the Texas Attorney General’s Office’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct.
  
  

• Successfully represented Senator Ted Cruz in a U.S. Supreme Court case striking down an unconstitutional provision of the Federal Election Campaign Act.
  
  

• Successfully represented a senior advisor to President Trump in connection with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s two-year investigation into the 2020 election and the U.S. House Select Committee’s inquiry into the events of January 6.
  
  

• Successfully represented a Republican Congressman in Fani Willis’s Georgia grand jury investigation into President Trump.
  
  

• Successfully sued and secured a settlement against President Obama’s IRS after Lois Lerner and her cronies unlawfully targeted a conservative nonprofit organization and leaked confidential taxpayer information.
  
  

• Successfully sued multiple states to strike down unconstitutional state laws in First Amendment lawsuits argued in federal district courts and courts of appeal.
  
  

• Successfully defended a Republican U.S. Senator in a multi-year investigatory inquiry by President Obama’s Justice Department.
  
  

• Successfully defended conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro in a high-profile defamation suit brought by the father of the former Irving, Texas student known as “Clock Boy.”
  
  

• Successfully defended dozens of U.S. Senators and Representatives in matters before federal and state agencies, as well as the Senate and House ethics committees.
  
  

• Successfully represented the Republican Party of Texas in a 2017 federal lawsuit filed by the Texas Democratic Party.
  
  

• Successfully drew and implemented Texas’s new congressional map in 2021 after being hired by 23 U.S. Representatives from Texas and the National Republican Congressional Committee.
  
  

Gober has previously served as General Counsel to the Republican Party of Texas, General Counsel to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Deputy Counsel to the Republican National Committee, and Counsel in the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice. From 2005-06, he worked on the team that prepared Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito for their confirmation hearings for the U.S. Supreme Court. 

Gober is a 7th-generation Texan whose family fought in the American Revolution and the Texas Revolution against Mexico. Raised in the rural communities of Throckmorton (pop. 727) and Graham (pop. 8,372) in the “Big Country” area of Texas, Gober went on to attend Texas A&M University and earn his law degree from Harvard Law School in 2004. He has been married for 17 years to Dr. Mary Beth Gober, a psychologist, and they are the proud parents of two daughters, ages 15 and 12. 

EDUCATION

Harvard Law School, J.D.
Texas A&M University, Bachelor Of Business Administration

AWARDS

• 500 Leading Lawyers in the World

• U.S Government Affairs & Public Policy Lawyer of the Year

• U.S Government Lawyer of the Year

• National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40

• American Association of Political Consultants Top 40 Under 40

• Super Lawyer

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Texas

• District Of Columbia

• Supreme Court Of The United States

• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

• United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

• United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

• United States Court of Appeals for the Northern District of Texas

• United States Court of Appeals for the Eastern District of Texas

• United States Court of Appeals for the Southern District of Texas

• United States Court of Appeals for the Western District of Texas