Bryan Clark

Mr. Clark’s practice focuses on digital privacy and media defense work, including class action mobile-marketing litigation, TCPA litigation, data breach response, reporter’s privilege issues, and pre-publication review. Mr. Clark is a member of the firm’s Digital Privacy and Data Protection group as well as the firm’s e-discovery group. Mr. Clark has also been involved in a broad range of other litigation matters, including topics as diverse as environmental, construction, real estate foreclosure, and insurance. He has also been involved in a variety of pro bono engagements, including work for non-profit media entities, representation of an Illinois prisoner with multiple sclerosis, and Section 1983 civil rights litigation. Mr. Clark is also a member of the firm’s Diversity Committee.

Mr. Clark previously served as a PILI Fellow, working on civil liberties issues for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. He also previously worked as a Legal Intern for Media/Professional Insurance (now Axis Pro), where he assisted with libel, intellectual property, and insurance matters, analyzed court pleadings, and conducted pre-distribution review of documentaries for fair use and defamation issues.

While in law school, Mr. Clark participated in the Wiley Rutledge Moot Court Competition and worked in the Civil Rights and Community Justice Clinic. Prior to law school, Mr. Clark studied news editorial journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he won several awards for his writing at the Columbia Missourian.

Prior Legal Experience:

• 2008-2009 - Associate, Sonnenchein Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, Illinois

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Court Memberships

• Illinois
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Honors

• CALI Awards for Achievement in Individual Rights and the Constitution, Spring 2007; Lawyer Ethics, Fall 2007; and Negotiation Theory and Practice, Fall 2007
• Staff Editor, Washington University Journal of Law & Policy
• Quarterfinalist, Wiley Rutledge Moot Court Competition, Fall 2007
• Client Counseling Competition, Fall 2005 and Spring 2007
• Kappa Tau Alpha, 2005
• Omicron Delta Kappa, 2004

Professional Affiliations

• Newsletter Editor and Chair-Elect - ABA TIPS Media, Privacy & Defamation Law Committee
• Member, American Bar Association – Section of Litigation, Forum on Communications Law
• Member, Chicago Bar Association
• Member, Media and the Law Seminar Planning Committee

Reported Decisions

• Questrel Inc., et al. v. Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2011 WL 7637786 (C.D. Ca. Mar. 23, 2012)
• Zblogicki v. Travel Channel, LLC, 2012 WL 725570 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 2, 2012)
• Parino, et al. v. BidRack Inc., et al., 2011 WL 4479462 (N.D. Ca. Sept. 26, 2011)
• Anatoly FRADIS Mike Case Kincaid and Bruce Budrow, et al. v. SAVEBIG.com, Kool House, LLC, et al., 2011 WL 3873191 (C.D. Ca. Sept. 2, 2011)
• Ford, et al. v. Bloosky, et al., 2011 WL 529265 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 4, 2011)
• Abbs v. Lily's Talent Agency, Inc., et al., 2010 WL 8531488 (Cook County Cir. Ct. Ill. Aug. 12, 2010)
• Abbas v. Selling Source, LLC, 2009 WL 4884471 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 14, 2009)

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Publications

• Testing the Limits of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act: Does the Law Apply to Text Messaging?, MLRC MediaLawLetter, April 2010
• Does § 230 of the Communications Decency Act Cover Mobile Marketing, ABA TIPS Media, Privacy and Defamation Law Committee Newsletter, Winter/Spring 2009
• Filling the First Amendment Gap: Can Gideons Get Away with In-School Bible Distribution by Exploiting the Play in the Joints Between the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses?, Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Volume 28 (2008)

Presentations

• Speaker, The Legal Requirements of Mobile Marketing, Heartland Mobile Council, Chicago, Illinois, June 30, 2010