Dan Laidman

Dan Laidman focuses his practice on media, First Amendment, and intellectual property litigation and counseling, including defamation, newsgathering, prior restraint, reporter's privilege, records and courtroom access, privacy, right-of-publicity, copyright, and trademark issues. He also advises newspaper, internet, radio, and television clients on pre-publication and pre-broadcast legal issues. Dan co-chairs the California Chapter of the Media Law Resource Center, and has served on the board of directors of the nonprofit open government group Californians Aware and on the Davis Wright Tremaine Pro Bono Committee.