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Abigail Everdell

Associate

T 212.603.6468 New York
Content carries risk, but it doesn't have to be a gamble. I can help shine a light on where risks lie, and will passionately defend your right to take them.
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Abigail Everdell counsels and defends clients in a wide range of media, intellectual property and First Amendment matters. In counseling, Abigail provides clients a clear and accurate picture of legal and practical risks, while formulating a reasonable path to publication. She has extensive experience providing both on-call and on-site prepublication review for newspapers, books, documentary, and scripted content for a broad array of clients including The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Global Witness, Refinery 29, Vice, Buzzfeed, The Trace, Showtime, MTV, NowThis, In Touch, and Life & Style. Abigail is also an experienced litigator in both state and federal courts, providing vigorous and strategically minded representation to clients in high-profile matters involving defamation, copyright, privacy law, anti-SLAPP, reporter's privilege, advertising, and speech-focused tort claims, as well as in general commercial and contractual disputes.

Abigail regularly advises clients on their rights and obligations under the First Amendment, and works closely with clients to develop internal content and speech-related policies and strategies tailored to their business needs. Abigail has authored amicus briefs for the Supreme Court and Federal Appeals Courts concerning the broader free speech and press freedom implications of federal laws, doctrines, and executive orders. She works with the TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund to counsel and defend clients facing legal threats for speaking out about harassment and assault, and serves on the associate board of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. Abigail worked in music journalism prior to pursuing a legal career.


Practice Highlights

Copyright defense

Defended an author and her publisher against claims from the author's ex-boyfriend that her debut novel infringed his unpublished screenplay. Following outrageous and threatening conduct by plaintiff and his counsel in the course of settlement correspondence, filed affirmative claims against the plaintiff. Has since succeeded in obtaining dismissal with prejudice of all copyright claims-notwithstanding attempts by plaintiff to resort to obscure and ever-shifting theories of copyright law.

Libel defense

Regularly secured pre-discovery dismissal of defamation (and defamation-in-disguise) claims brought by plaintiffs with outsized resources and a passion for chilling speech.

First amendment counseling

Counseled a prominent nonprofit organization on First Amendment public forum analysis and its impact on the formulation and enforcement of visitor conduct policies.
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Admitted to Practice

  • New York, 2015

Education

  • J.D., Columbia Law School, 2014
    • Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
    • Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Journal of Law and Arts
    • Michael D. Remer Memorial Award for Aptitude in Arts and Copyright Law, 2014
  • B.A., Comparative Literature, New York University, 2007, magna cum laude

Languages

  • French

Memberships & Affiliations

    • Associate Board Member, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 2016-present

Professional Recognition

    • Selected to "New York Rising Stars" in Intellectual Property, Thomson Reuters, 2021-2022

Background

    • Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, N.Y., 2014-2016
    • Legal Intern, Tumblr, Inc., New York, N.Y., 2013
    • Legal Intern, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y., 2012
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