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. 

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, companies, nonprofits and industry trade associations, high-net-worth individuals, and high-profile executives and athletes. As recently described by The New York Times, Gober is a “swaggering Texas-based lawyer” who has represented billionaires like Elon Musk, championship-winning athletes and coaches, award-winning on-air personalities, and dozens of U.S. Senators, Members of Congress, and Governors.

Gober is a proven winner in courtrooms across the country, so he often gets the call when someone has a complex problem or case they can’t afford to lose.  

• Successfully represented Elon Musk and America PAC in high-profile lawsuits brought by the Wisconsin Attorney General and Philadelphia District Attorney, stemming from their support of political candidates and the Constitution.
  
  

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

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

• Successfully represented a Republican Congressman in Fani Willis’s Georgia grand jury investigation into President Trump and the 2020 election.
  
  

• Successfully sued and secured a settlement against President Obama’s IRS after Lois Lerner and her deputies 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.

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

A 7th-generation Texan raised in the rural communities of Throckmorton (pop. 727) and Graham (pop. 8,372) in the “Big Country” area of Texas between Lubbock and Dallas, Gober went on to attend Texas A&M University and earn his law degree from Harvard Law School in 2004.  

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