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In a potential recount that may still come in the dynamic state Supreme Court race, both sides have consulted with some of the most expert lawyers in the nation on the topic for advice.

Challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg is being represented by the firm Perkins Coie, campaign manager Melissa Mulliken said. Marc Elias, an attorney who handled Al Franken's successful U.S. Senate recount fight in Minnesota, is a member of the firm and has been advising the campaign.

Elias works in the firm's political practice section in Washington, D.C. That department was run by Robert F. Bauer, currently President Barack Obama's White House counsel.

Justice David Prosser's legal team includes Washington D.C. lawyer Ben Ginsberg, who served as national counsel to former President George W. Bush’s campaigns in 2000 and 2004. Ginsberg played a central role in the 2000 Florida recount on which Bush’s campaign against Democrat Al Gore hinged.

Melissa Mulliken, who ran Kloppenburg's campaign, said Friday that the campaign had been working with Perkins Coie earlier in the campaign. David Anstaett, who works in the firm's Madison office, also has been assisting, she told the Journal Sentinel's Don Walker.

Mulliken said the campaign had already made an open records request of the votes cast in Waukesha County, where thousands of votes had gone untallied until the mistake was reported on Thursday.

Mulliken declined to say whether Kloppenburg might seek a recount in the race, which jerked from the challenger to Prosser, the incumbent, after more than 7,500 more votes for Prosser were discovered in a clerk’s error in Waukesha County.

Elias is nationally known for his expertise on recounts. Three years ago in the Franken recount, a three-judge state panel declared Franken the winner, by 312 votes, over Republican Norm Coleman.

Elias also handled the Minnesota recount in the gubernatorial race last year involving Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer. Dayton eventially won: out of 2.1 million ballots case, he won by a 9,000-vote margin.