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Timestamp: 2019-04-25 13:51:07+00:00

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Laura Handman is the co-chair of the firm’s appellate practice and divides her time between the New York and D.C. offices. For over 35 years, Laura has been providing pre-publication counseling and litigation services from complaint through trial and appeal to U.S. and foreign broadcasters, film studios, and book, magazine, newspaper and Internet publishers and non-profits. Laura has extensive experience in libel, newsgathering, privacy, right of publicity, reporter’s privilege and First Amendment matters. She obtained the first decision in U.S. courts refusing to enforce foreign libel judgments as inconsistent with the First Amendment and was involved in the passage of the SPEECH Act codifying those decisions as federal law. Laura has served as an expert on American libel law in actions in England, Northern Ireland and Australia. She has obtained the first decisions applying the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act in federal court and has written four amicus briefs on Anti-SLAPP issues. She represents news organizations, reporters, and Internet firms in national security investigations. She brings recognized expertise to clients in copyright litigation and was appointed a special master in S.D.N.Y. to review advertising and promotion in a civil fraud action.
Laura’s clients include: AARP, Amazon.com, Associated Newspapers, Atlantic Media Company, Bloomberg, Bureau of National Affairs, Center for American Progress, Center for Public Integrity, Discovery, Dow Jones, The Economist, Gizmodo Media, HarperCollins, Hearst Corporation, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Greenpeace, Microsoft, New York Daily News, New York Post, National Public Radio (NPR), Pew Charitable Trust, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Penguin Random House, Straus News, Times Newspapers Ltd., TripAdvisor, U.S. News & World Report, Washington Post, Yale Alumni Magazine, and Yelp.
Udell v. NYP Holdings, Inc.
Resolute Forest Products, Inc. et al. v. Greenpeace International, et al.
Energy Transfer Partners et al. v. Greenpeace Int’l et al.
Montgomery v. Risen et al.
Kimberley v. Penguin Random House, et al.
Murray Energy Corporation v. Reorg Research Inc.
SentosaCare, LLC, et al. v. Lehman, et al.
Pras Michel v. NYP Holdings, Inc.
Martin v. New York Daily News, L.P.
Obtained unanimous affirmance of summary judgment for daily newspaper and columnist Errol Louis in libel action brought by a sitting judge on grounds of no actual malice. Obtained unanimous affirmance of dismissal of second suit on grounds that restoration of columns to the website did not constitute republication retriggering statute of limitations. 990 N.Y.S.2d 473 (App. Div. 1st Dept. 2014), leave to appeal denied (N.Y. Oct. 27, 2014). Brendan Pierson, Ruling Upholds Dismissal of Judge’s Defamation Suit, NYLJ (July 18, 2014); Kelly Knaub, "Court Won’t Revive Justice’s $10M Daily News Defamation Suit," Law 360 (July 17, 2014).
Westlake Legal Group v. Yelp, Inc.
Massey Coal v. United Mine Workers of America, et al.
Flowers v. Carville, et al.
Gutnick v. Dow Jones & Co.
Alexander Vassiliev v. Amazon.com, Inc.
Finger v. Omni Publications International Ltd.
Hatfill v. Mukasey, et al.
Young v. Suffolk County, et al.
ConnectU, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc.
NYP Holdings, Inc. v. New York Post Publishing Inc., et al.
Col. Adams v. Discovery Communications, LLC, et al.
The Humane Society of the United States v. Amazon.com, et al.
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, E.D.N.Y.
Law Clerk to Chief Judge Raymond J. Pettine, D.R.I.

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