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James Grossberg, a partner in the firm, concentrates his practice on counseling and litigation on behalf of media clients involving defamation and other content liability, newsgathering, access to governmental information and proceedings and subpoenas of journalists.

Mr. Grossberg provides extensive representation to Freedom Communications, Inc. on First Amendment and related matters, including serving as the principal media law counsel to The Orange County Register. He routinely handles a variety of content matters for media entities including the pre-publication review of articles and editorials, responses to retraction demands, challenges to the closure of court proceedings and official records and the defense of libel litigation.

Mr. Grossberg also represents media organizations in connection with significant legislative and policy matters at the local, state and federal levels and has appeared before legislative committees in Congress and at the state level. He co-authored Maintaining an Informed Democracy, the authoritative policy paper submitted to the Clinton Administration in 1993 on behalf of several national media organizations.

Mr. Grossberg serves on the Legal Affairs Committee of the Newspaper Association of America, previously served as president of the Defense Counsel Section of the Libel Defense Resource Center (now the Media Law Resource Center) and chaired its Legislative Committee, co-chaired the Subcommittee on First Amendment, Media Access and the Reporters’ Privilege of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association and served on the Legal Advisory Committee of the California First Amendment Coalition. Mr. Grossberg co-authored the Reporter’s Handbook on Media Law published by the California Newspapers Publishers Association, has authored articles for the Washington Journalism Review and Quill Magazine on media law topics and has spoken frequently on First Amendment and media law issues before attorneys, journalists and journalism students.

Mr. Grossberg earned his J.D. in 1983 and his B.A. in 1978, both from the University of Virginia, where he was managing editor of The Cavalier Daily student newspaper. He is admitted to the bars of California and the District of Columbia, the United States Supreme Court, and a number of federal courts. He served as law clerk to the Honorable William Garwood, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and practiced law at Ross Dixon & Masback, L.L.P. before becoming a founding partner of Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P. in 1997.