The Virginia Senate battle between incumbent Sen. Mark Warner (D.) and his Republican challenger Ed Gillespie remains too close to call, and the Warner campaign has called in Democratic super-lawyer Marc Elias to deal with the legal fight that is sure to ensue.
Roll Call's Niels Lesniewski reported Wednesday that the Warner campaign would hold a conference call with Elias later in the day.
Elias has become the go-to lawyer for Democrats across the country when their campaigns face legal problems.
The vote tally between Warner and Gillespie remained close on Wednesday morning. With 99 percent of the vote counted, Warner is ahead by more than 12,000 votes.
Warner delivered a speech Tuesday night in which he all but declared victory in the election, but Gillespie said that he will not concede the race. Virginia election officials began to canvass the results on Wednesday morning.
Elias' most notable legal fights was the 2008 recount in Minnesota.
Critics of Elias during the Minnesota recount said that he strong armed "inexperienced election officials" to disregard the states election laws and reconsider absentee ballots that were rejected on election day. Al Franken wound up beating Norm Coleman by just 300 votes.