Media Law

Representative Experience

• Representing a midsized Midwestern media company in its defense of defamation claims, successfully winning one of the first dismissals in Illinois based on the State's recent anti-SLAPP litigation, which was subsequently affirmed by the intermediate appellate court.
• Acting as primary outside counsel for a large communications industry client’s Chicago properties, supervising those properties’ litigation, corporate, employment, intellectual property, sweepstakes, real estate and construction law needs.
• Serving as lead counsel on a multi-national dispute involving a Chinese client whose financial reporting allegedly damaged an Illinois company’s billion dollar product line overseas.
• Assisting a communications industry client in implementing a major promotional initiative by spearheading the multidisciplinary legal team that developed the rules, labor agreements and other legal documents associated with a major contest to select and employ a spokesperson to represent the client in high profile advertisements and during marketing events.
• Helping to protect a communications industry client from incurring major legal expenses likely to be associated with its defense in a wrongful termination suit.
• Assisting an Ohio-based media company with respect to business, contract, and employment related matters, including preparing and negotiating talent agreements, aiding in copyright and licensing matters, and providing general business and contract services.