Professional Activities
Third Circuit Bar Association
Philadelphia Bar Association
Recognition & Accomplishments
The Best Lawyers in America, First Amendment litigation, Philadelphia, 2020, 2021
Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, Rising Star, media & advertising, 2013-2019
Named to the 2010 Pro Bono Roll of Honor in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania
Publications
Co-author, "Federal Court Blocks Maryland's Online Political Ad Law Under First Amendment," Ballard Spahr alert, January 4, 2019
Author, "D.C. Circuit Holds That Transit Authority Is Permitted to Reject Religious Advertisements," Ballard Spahr alert, August 3, 2018
Co-author, "A Five-Star Decision: Yelp's Recent Victory Reaffirms Broad Protections of Section 230," Ballard Spahr alert, July 6, 2018
Author, "Pennsylvania Federal Court Holds Consumer Review Website Was Not Engaged in Commercial Speech," Ballard Spahr alert, June 29, 2018
"Is It Truthful? Then the Media Has a Right to Publish It," Pennsylvania Law Weekly, February 2, 2017
"The First Amendment, The Courts, and 'Picking Winners,'" 87 University of Washington Law Review 397, 2012 (with Judge Thomas L. Ambro, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit)
"Judicial Approaches to Expectations of Privacy in E-Mail," 3 Bloomberg Law Reports 10, 2010
Recent Speaking Engagements
Panelist, "Trademarks, the Right of Publicity, and the First Amendment," Annual Meeting of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, October 22, 2020
Moderator, "Regulating Political Advertising Online," Yale Law School’s Abrams Institute for Freedom of Speech: Commercial Speech and the First Amendment, June 2, 2020
Panelist, "Drawing the Line Between 'News' and Commercial Speech," Yale Law School's Abrams Institute for Freedom of Speech: Commercial Speech and the First Amendment, June 3, 2019
Panelist, "One Day Law School For Journalists," Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts and Penn State Dickinson School of Law, May 16, 2019
Keynote Speaker, "Lawyer for a Day," Philadelphia Bar Association, May 2, 2019
Speaker, "First Amendment and Media Law Issues," Conference of the Society of Professional Journalists, Northeastern Region, Philadelphia, April 21, 2018
Panelist, "Know Your Reporting Rights," Radio Television Digital News Association, Washington, D.C., October 20, 2017
"Legal Q&A," Podcast Movement, Anaheim, California, August 25, 2017
Panelist, "Fake News and the New Administration," Annual Symposium of the University of Pennsylvania Law School Journal of Constitutional Law, Philadelphia, February 10, 2017
Panelist, "Safeguarding the First Amendment Under President Trump," American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, Philadelphia, January 20, 2107
Panelist, "The Freedom of Information Act," Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia, December 12, 2016
Panelist, "The Charlie Hebdo Controversy," Media and Communications Law Society, Temple Law School, Philadelphia, February 12, 2015
Panelist, "Recent Cases in Defamation and Invasion of Privacy," American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law Annual Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, February 5, 2015
Panelist, "First Amendment Restrictions on Government Speech," Philadelphia City Law Department, Philadelphia, July 30, 2014