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News Room
01/06/2010
Lathrop & Gage Continues Leadership in ABA TIPS Media, Privacy and Defamation Law Committee
Lathrop & Gage attorney Blaine Kimrey (Business Litigation - Chicago), who currently serves as Chair of the ABA TIPS Media, Privacy and Defamation Law Committee, has set forth the agenda for the group for the coming year, including working meetings at various forums across the nation. As chair of the committee, he provides input regarding the committee's newsletter, which has released its most recent edition. Lathrop & Gage attorney Bryan Clark (Business Litigation - Chicago), serves as assistant editor of the publication, which collects analytical articles from some of the leading experts in media law on cutting edge topics in the field.
Among those attorneys just published in the most recent edition is Lathrop & Gage attorney Lincoln Bandlow (Business Litigation - Los Angeles), who wrote on protected speech in a recent case for Hallmark Cards. His piece, "A Ruling to which Speakers Will Not Say 'That's Hot'," examines the legal under-pinning behind a Paris Hilton lawsuit over a controversial greeting card that used her image. "This unprecedented finding that the publicity rights of an iconic celebrity may trump the First Amendment in the context of fully-protected speech that spoofs that celebrity will drastically chill speech if allowed to stand," Mr. Bandlow writes. Mr. Bandlow regularly specializes in litigating media, First Amendment, intellectual property and other entertainment-related matters.
Among its business meetings for 2010, the committee convened at the ABA TIPS Fall Leadership meeting in San Diego and met jointly with the ABA TIPS Intellectual Property Committee in conjunction with the Media Law Resource Center annual dinner in New York. The group will meet at the ABA Forum on Communications Annual Conference (January 28-30, in Key Largo, Fla.), and at Kansas City's Media and the Law Seminar (April 23). Additional business meetings may occur at the ABA Midyear Meeting (February 3-9, in Orlando), the ABA TIPS Spring Meeting (May 12-16 in San Juan, Puerto Rico), and the ABA Annual Meeting (August 5-10 in San Francisco).
The Media, Privacy, and Defamation Law Committee concentrates on insurance, media law, privacy law, and defamation law concerns. The group's topics are wide-ranging within these spheres, including insurance coverage for controversial news reporting, invasion of publicity rights, unbiased press coverage, reducing liability exposure, freedom-of-information litigation, identity theft, maintaining a positive relationship with an insurance carrier, public access to court hearings, data-security breach, and a plethora of other subjects.
The partner-in-charge of the firm's Chicago office, Mr. Kimrey is a former journalist at two major metropolitan daily newspapers and now is a trial lawyer with over 15 years experience working for and defending media entities. His practice extends well beyond media defense, focusing on a broad range of direct and class action commercial litigation involving topics as diverse as intellectual property, entertainment, insurance, banking, civil rights, telecommunications and mass catastrophes and torts. Mr. Kimrey is an honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, and was recently named to the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin's "40 Illinois Attorneys Under 40 to Watch" list and as a "Rising Star" in Illinois by Benchmark Litigation.
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