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Nathan Siegel is a partner in the firm and has spent his career representing media clients in First Amendment and intellectual property cases. He has litigated media cases in numerous federal and state trial and appellate courts throughout the country. Among many other matters, Mr. Siegel successfully defended ESPN in defamation suits brought by major sports personalities in the Third and Ninth Circuits, a novel “ride-along” newsgathering suit for the ABC-owned station WPVI-TV in Philadelphia and several lawsuits testing the limits of the fair use doctrine in television news. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Siegel served as in-house litigation counsel at ABC, Inc. where he supervised the defense of ABC News in the landmark Food Lion v. ABC case and many other First Amendment matters.
Mr. Siegel is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Law School, where he teaches a course in media law. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland’s Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, where he taught a graduate-level course in communications law. Mr. Siegel has authored a number of articles, including Publication Damages in Newsgathering Cases, 19 Communications Lawyer, No. 2 at 11-19 (2001) and Commentary, Newsgathering and Privacy Rights, 1999 Annual Survey of American Law, No. 2 at 207-15.
Mr. Siegel regularly speaks about current developments in First Amendment law to legal practitioners and journalists. He is currently a co-editor of the Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law, a co-coordinator of the Media Law Resource Center’s Task Force to propose and seek passage of federal and state reporter shield laws, and he previously served as Chair of the MLRC’s Advisory Committee on New Legal Developments.
Mr. Siegel received his undergraduate degree from Duke University (1985, summa cum laude) and his law degree from The Yale Law School (1992), where he was a member of the The Yale Law Journal. He is admitted to practice in the courts of Maryland, New York and the District of Columbia as well as in the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Ninth and District of Columbia Circuits, and in the United States District Courts for the District of Maryland, District of Columbia and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. |
