Eric K. Gorovitz

Eric Gorovitz is a principal at Adler & Colvin. He has extensive experience in lobbying, legislative drafting, policy development, and media advocacy, and has helped nonprofits and foundations nationwide understand the federal tax rules governing their advocacy activities. Mr. Gorovitz has represented clients regarding nonprofit and foundation formation and governance, compliance with federal tax law, public policy advocacy, and the intersection of tax and election law. Drawing on his background in public health, he has cultivated a client base that includes many public health advocacy organizations and the foundations that fund them. Representative clients include, among many others: all of the California Planned Parenthood entities; the California Endowment; the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation; and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.

Mr. Gorovitz is admitted to the bar in the state of California and has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Between a brief period as a consumer attorney and his return to practicing law in 2007, Mr. Gorovitz spent approximately twelve years as an advocate for policy change in public health, engaging directly in legislative and regulatory policy development as Policy Director for several local, state, and national nonprofit advocacy organizations. He then opened the West Coast Office of Alliance for Justice, serving as the West Coast Director for three years.