Rachel Strom

Partner

Rachel's passion and resourcefulness in upholding the speech rights of her clients has won her tremendous client loyalty. Rachel knows her clients' business, their risk tolerance, and their priorities, so she can be a true counselor and provide service particularized to them.

She represented media companies in defamation, invasion of privacy and copyright matters, including researching and writing dispositive motions, taking and defending depositions, questioning trial witnesses, drafting appellate and post-trial briefs, and presenting oral argument in trial and appellate courts. In addition to helping lead high-stakes litigation matters for traditional media clients as described above, Rachel has carved out a distinct position as a digital media specialist, providing pre-publication review for a host of important new media upstarts.

Practice Highlights

Michael D. Cohen v. United States of America

Represented The New York Times, ABC, CNN, Newsday, and the Associated Press to secure critical access for the public to a headline-making proceeding the judge had been prepared to close, which addressed records seized by the FBI in the raid of the office of Michael Cohen, President Trump's attorney. Persuaded the judge that "the fact that a lawyer represents a client is not privileged"—a finding that, on the hearing's second day where the media was represented by DWT partner Robert Balin, led to the revelation in open court that Sean Hannity was also one of Mr. Cohen's clients. (Ongoing)

Moore v. Showtime et al.

Defending the producers of "Who is America?", the political satire television series created by Sacha Baron Cohen, against defamation and related claims brought by former Republication senate candidate Roy Moore and his wife, Kayla Moore. (D.D.D., ongoing)

Development, production, and pre-broadcast counseling, and other IP advice

Provide 24/7 counseling on development, acquisition, and production issues, including chain of title and rights analyses, day-to-day production and clearance advice, production legal services, and pre-broadcast review for television networks, podcast companies, production companies, film studios, video game publishers, documentarians, and newspaper, book, and magazine publishers.

*Denotes experience prior to joining Davis Wright Tremaine

Admitted to Practice

New York, 2007
Massachusetts, 2007
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 2007
U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 2007
U.S. District Court Northern District of New York, 2014
U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, 2016
U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 2017
U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 2008
U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 2016
U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 2018

Education

J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 2006, cum laude
- Order of the Coif
- Notes & Comments Editor, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
- Teaching Assistant, Torts and Property
- Research assistant to Dean David Rudenstein
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, 2001

Memberships & Affiliations

- Member, Media Law Resource Center Board of Trustees, 2016-present
- Inaugural Co-Chair, Next Generation Committee, Media Law Resource Center, 2014-2016
- Member, Committee on Media Law, New York State Bar Association, 2009-present

Professional Recognition

- Named as one of "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" by Chambers USA in Media Entertainment: First Amendment Litigation (New York), 2019-2022; First Amendment Litigation (Nationwide), 2021-2022
- Named a "Rising Star" by New York Law Journal, 2019
- Named a "Rising Star" in Media & Entertainment Law, Law360, 2018
- Ranked as "Up and Coming" for New York, Media & Entertainment: First Amendment Litigation by Chambers USA, 2017-2018
- Ranked as "Associate to Watch" for New York, Media & Entertainment: First Amendment Litigation by Chambers USA, 2015-2016
- Selected to "New York Super Lawyers," Media & Advertising, Entertainment & Sports, and Intellectual Property Litigation, Thomson Reuters, 2014-2022

Background

- Associate, 2012-2015; Partner, 2016-2017; Levine Sullivan Koch & Schultz LLP, New York, N.Y.
- Summer Associate, 2005; Associate, 2006-2012; Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, N.Y.
- Intern for the Hon. Faith Hochberg, U.S. District Court Judge, Newark, N.J., 2004

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