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Ballard Spahr LLP Offices
1909 K STREET, NW
12th FLOOR
WASHINGTON DC 20006-1157
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Jay Ward Brown
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Jay Ward Brown has been representing news and entertainment companies for almost three decades. He has litigated defamation, privacy, copyright, subpoena, and access matters in the U.S. Supreme Court, federal and state appellate courts, and trial courts around the country.
Jay has been described in Chambers USA as “a lawyer who delivers continuously high-quality service,” possesses “impeccable analysis and impressive writing skills,” and has a “friendly, approachable and attentive demeanor [that] sees clients wanting to use him exclusively.”
Admissions
District of Columbia
Maryland
New York
Virginia
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and District of Columbia Circuits
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of New York
U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
Memberships
Trial Law Institute, Member
Diversity Law Institute, Member
Media Law Resource Center, Defense Counsel Section, past President
Media Law Resource Center Institute, past Board of Trustees member and past Chair
Law360, past Media and Entertainment Editorial Advisory Board
ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, Media, Privacy & Defamation Law Committee, past Vice Chair
ABA Forum on Communications Law, past Governing Board
Trinity College, Adjunct Instructor in Law of Mass Communications, 1999-2003
University of Maryland School of Journalism, Adjunct Instructor in Media Law, 1995-1996
Education
New York University School of Law (J.D. 1992, cum laude)
Fellow, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (M.S. 1985, with honors)
University of Minnesota at Minneapolis (B.A. 1984)
Phi Beta Kappa
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense