LSKS attorneys have been involved in most of the leading media cases in the past two decades involving defamation, product disparagement, invasion of privacy, and rights of publicity, including the U.S. Supreme Court cases Bartnicki v. Vopper, Masson v. The New Yorker Magazine, and Harte-Hanks v. Connaughton.  We have tried defamation and privacy cases in front of juries in jurisdictions throughout the country, from California to Minnesota and from Colorado to the U.S. Virgin Islands. 

The cases we defend arise out of news reports; blogs and other Internet publications; movies, music and other entertainment content; books and periodicals; and radio shows, reality television programs, and other unscripted broadcasts.

The firm has been engaged at one time or another by virtually every major media company and has been appointed by the leading media insurance companies to defend scores of smaller media businesses around the country in libel, privacy and publicity cases.  As a result, every LSKS attorney is engaged daily in both trial court litigation and appellate proceedings in state and federal courts in this practice area.

In addition to handling litigation, we help our clients avoid it by providing prepublication and prebroadcast counseling.  We serve as regular “newsroom” counsel to press clients, and our lawyers staff 24/7 legal hotlines for several media trade associations and other clients.  In an age when content is being published around the clock, our clients need to know they can access reliable legal advice on their deadlines, and we provide it.

To review a list of some of the noteworthy defamation, privacy, and publicity cases LSKS attorneys' have litigated, please click here.