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Practice Areas
Agricultural Law
Health Care Law
Securities Law
Real Estate Law
Patents
Maritime Law
International Law
Intellectual Property
Immigration Law
Estate Planning
Antitrust Law
Environmental Law
Entertainment & Sports Law
Energy, Oil & Gas Law
Employment Law
Education Law
Construction Law
Communications & Internet Law
Appeals & Appellate
Tax Law
Professional Experience
Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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Education
Columbia University School of Law
J.D
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Yale College
B.A
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Professional Associations
Current
Activities: Named as one of "America's Leading Business Lawyers" by Chambers USA, 2003-2006, citing him as "an undeniably superb lawyer” and a “tenacious litigator who knows his area backward and is never stuck for an idea."
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Activities: Named as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in First Amendment Law by Woodward/White, 1995-1996; 1997-98; 1999-2000; 2001-02; 2003-04; 2005-06; 2006; 2007; 2008
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Activities: Named as one of the Lawdragon “500 Lawyers in America” in 2005; 2006; 2007
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Activities: Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Magazine Publishers of America; serves on the Lawyer’s Committee of the Association of American Publishers; and was a co-founder of the Libel Defense Resource Center; Member, Copyright Society; Member, Advisory Board of the Media Law Reporter
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Activities: Former Chair, Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Communications and Media Law of the New York City Bar Association
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Activities: Chair, The Fund for Modern Courts, 2006-Present
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Activities: Founder, Lankenau Kovner & Outten which merged with Davis Wright Tremaine in 1998
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Activities: Prior Public Service Former Chair of The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct
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Activities: Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, 1990-1991
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Activities: Member, President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, 1993-2001
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Telephone: (212) 489-8230
Fax: (212) 489-8340