Linda Steinman

She/Her

Partner

T 212.603.6409 New York
My field is speech and the law's role in fostering it, whether under the First Amendment or copyright law.
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Linda Steinman has more than 35 years of litigation and counseling experience in First Amendment and intellectual property law. Many of her clients are media companies but she also represents nonprofits, tech companies, universities, and government agencies seeking her expertise. She helps them grapple with the legal and business impact of a rapidly changing world, whether as a result of technology, politics or other forces.

Linda's areas of practice include defamation, privacy/publicity, copyright, trademark, newsgathering torts, reporter's privilege, prior restraint, public/private forum analysis, intellectual property rights acquisition and licensing, and other publishing law and First Amendment issues.

Linda has litigated scores of cases in state and federal courts, including leading copyright, First Amendment, and defamation litigations. She also regularly performs pre-publication and pre-broadcast review. More broadly, she often works with clients to counsel them on their wide-ranging business challenges related to their content. Having worked in-house at Random House before joining DWT, Linda understands the legal issues that clients face from the inside out.

Practice Highlights

Defamation and copyright litigations

Linda has a national practice in high profile defamation and complex copyright litigations for major commercial and scholarly publishers in all media and well known authors.

Working with newspaper and book publishing industries to protect their content

Linda represents and counsels the newspaper industry and book publishers on how to protect their content from aggregators and other users of their works, including litigating the Hachette v. Internet Archive and Associated Press v. Meltwater fair use cases.

Pre-publication review

Linda works with clients starting from the inception of an in-depth or undercover political investigation, documentary, or reality TV show through the pre-publication review of the final version.