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Zoë N. McKinney

Associate

T 213.655.9667 Los Angeles
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Zoë McKinney brings several years of experience in litigation and First Amendment protections to our Media and Entertainment team. As a mission-driven attorney, her practice has involved advocating for government transparency and access to information. She has challenged policies restricting protected speech, including in public schools, at protests, and at open legislative meetings. She has worked with coalitions of journalists to advocate for law enforcement policies and practices respecting the First Amendment right to engage in newsgathering, and she has counseled clients experiencing governmental censorship on social media and facing threats of defamation claims by public officials. Her current practice includes representing media clients in anti-SLAPP motions and in disputes arising from public records requests.

Zoë has also explored how technology, privacy, and free expression online interrelate. Her earlier experience included a focus on international free speech and free press issues in the digital age that has taken her to Japan and Myanmar in support of the UN Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression mandate. She also focused on immigrants' rights and border issues in San Diego and Imperial Counties, litigating complex FOIA cases.

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Admitted to Practice

  • California, 2016

Education

  • J.D., University of California, Irvine School of Law, 2016
    • Senior Research Editor, UC Irvine Law Review
    • Pro Bono High Honors
    • Jessup Moot Court quarterfinalist
  • B.S., Human and Organizational Development, B.A., Spanish, Vanderbilt University, 2010, cum laude

Languages

  • Spanish

Memberships & Affiliations

  • ABA Forum on Communications Law

Background

    • First Amendment and Democracy Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2020-2022
    • Immigrants ' Rights Fellow, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2018-2020
    • Border Litigation Project Fellow / Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of San Diego and Imperial Counties, San Diego, 2016-2018
    • Student Representative, International Justice Clinic, Irvine, Calif.
    • Judicial Extern, U.S. District Court, Central District California, Southern Division, Santa Ana, Calif., 2015
    • Summer Law Clerk, Traber & Voorhees Civil Rights Attorneys, Pasadena, Calif., 2015
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