Representative Experience
Provides representation in First Amendment (including libel, privacy and newsgathering torts, access, and reporter’s privilege), advertising, marketing, promotions, contests and sweepstakes, and general commercial litigation matters
Prior Experience
Associate, Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC, Washington, D.C.
Publications and Presentations
Co-author, “Actual Malice and the Commercial Speech Doctrine,” First Amendment Law Letter, Summer 2002
Co-author, Commercialization: Misappropriation and the Right of Publicity section in “Newsgathering, Invasion of Privacy and Related Torts,” Communications Law PLI 2001
Co-author, False Light section in “Newsgathering, Invasion of Privacy and Related Torts,” Communications Law PLI 2000
Memberships and Activities
Volunteer attorney with Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless
Admitted in: New York and District of Columbia, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Secretary, Media Law Committee of the Arts, Entertainment and Sports Law Section of the District of Columbia Bar Association (2001-2002)
New York State Bar Association
American Bar Association
Education
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
- Virginia Journal of International Law
- Legal Clerk, Criminal Division, United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York
B.A. in English, cum laude, Barnard College, Columbia University