Winter 2022

Media & Communications

Getting Laffey Out of Court: Rethinking the Calculation of Reasonable Attorney Fees in FOIA Cases

By Margaret N. Strouse

Convincing D.C. courts to abandon the inflexible limits of the matrix calculations and recognize an attorney’s actual billable rate as per se reasonable better serves FOIA requestors, FOIA attorneys, and the purpose of FOIA.

Media & Communications

SLAPP-ing Back: Recent Legal Challenges to the Application of State Anti-SLAPP Laws

By Shannon Jankowski and Charles Hogle

Pending SLAPP decisions in the Second and Ninth Circuits—with jurisdiction over states with the largest number of news media organizations—will significantly impact the news media’s ability to defend against meritless federal lawsuits in the future.

Practice Technology

The Ransomware Epidemic: Criminals Taking Advantage of Those Working from Home—Including Lawyers and Media Companies

By Judith Branham and Cheri Carr

The number of identifiable hacking groups continues to grow, as does the level of sophistication in ransomware attacks rise. Even organizations with strong cybersecurity defenses are falling victim to the attacks.

Media & Communications

The Censor’s Dilemma

By Robert Corn-Revere

This is the first chapter of “The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder: The First Amendment and the Censor’s Dilemma,” which “brings to life the absurdities of censorship and the dangers such views pose to American liberty and democracy.”

Diversity & Inclusion

From the Chair: Forum’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Featuring a Guest Column with a Young Lawyer’s Perspective

By Lynn Carrillo, with a guest column by Giselle M. Girones

In keeping with the Forum’s efforts to support even greater diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Chair Lynn D. Carrillo has turned over her column to a future leader of the Forum, the co-chair of the Young Lawyers Committee, Giselle M. Girones.

Media & Communications

Officers, Governing Committee, and Editors 2021–2022

An organized listing of key people in the Forum on Communications Law in the American Bar year 2022.