Rachel Strom

Partner

T 212.402.4069 New York
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Rachel's passion and resourcefulness in upholding the speech rights of her clients has won her tremendous client loyalty. Rachel knows her clients' business, their risk tolerance, and their priorities, so she can be a true counselor and provide service particularized to them.

She represented media companies in defamation, invasion of privacy and copyright matters, including researching and writing dispositive motions, taking and defending depositions, questioning trial witnesses, drafting appellate and post-trial briefs, and presenting oral argument in trial and appellate courts. In addition to helping lead high-stakes litigation matters for traditional media clients as described above, Rachel has carved out a distinct position as a digital media specialist, providing pre-publication review for a host of important new media upstarts.

Practice Highlights

ShotSpotter v. VICE

Secured dismissal of $200 million defamation claim brought by gunshot detection company ShotSpotter over a VICE article that, based on a number of court filings, described how ShotSpotter exhibited a pattern of altering gunshot alerts at the request of the cops and reported that prosecutors had withdrawn ShotSpotter evidence during trial. (Del. Sup. Ct. 2022).

Williams v. Netflix

Defending Netflix in a defamation action filed by a former friend of New York City con artist Anna Sorokin, who is depicted in the docuseries "Inventing Anna." (D. Del, Ongoing)

Development, production, and pre-broadcast counseling, and other IP advice

Provide 24/7 counseling on development, acquisition, and production issues, including chain of title and rights analyses, day-to-day production and clearance advice, production legal services, and pre-broadcast review for television networks, podcast companies, production companies, film studios, video game publishers, documentarians, and newspaper, book, and magazine publishers.