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Christopher P. Beall, a partner of the firm, represents news media organizations and others in libel, trademark, false advertising, copyright, public access and other related First Amendment matters.  Mr. Beall recently prevailed in a six-day jury trial in defense of a Denver jewelry designer accused of trade dress infringement in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  He also was part of the legal team that represented the news media during the Kobe Bryant rape case in Eagle, Colorado, including the prior restraint litigation in the Colorado Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.  He also was lead counsel for the Cortez Journal newspaper in the case Wilson v. Meyer, 126 P.3d 376 (Colo. Ct. App. 2005), which expanded the fair report doctrine under Colorado law.

Prior to practicing law, Mr. Beall was an investigative journalist and bureau chief for the Providence Journal-Bulletin, in Providence, Rhode Island.  He also was a staff writer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and during his undergraduate years worked for the Hartford Courant, San Jose Mercury-News, the News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), and the Alameda Times-Star.

Mr. Beall received his B.A., with distinction in the major, from Yale University in 1985, and he received his J.D., summa cum laude, Order of the Coif, from Duke Law School in 1997.  While at Duke, in 1996, Mr. Beall took overall first place in the First Amendment Center’s First Amendment Moot Court competition at Vanderbilt Law School, as well as winning the trophy for “Best Brief.”  He was senior notes editor of the Duke Law Journal.  Mr. Beall served as law clerk to the Hon. David M. Ebel, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1997-1998. He is a member of the adjunct faculty at the Sturm College of Law at Denver University, where he teaches on media law topics, and is admitted to practice in the courts of Colorado and New Mexico, as well as the Tenth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.  Mr. Beall previously was a partner of the firm Faegre & Benson, LLP.