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Ballard Spahr LLP Offices
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NEW YORK, NY 10019-5820
NEW YORK
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David Schulz
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Senior Counsel
Career
David A. Schulz has defended the rights of journalists and news organizations for more than 35 years, litigating libel, privacy, access, and newsgathering claims in 20 states.
His regular clients include international news organizations, national and local newspapers, broadcast and cable television networks, station owners, magazine and book publishers, and internet content providers of all types.
Admissions
New York
District of Columbia
Connecticut
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Ninth, and 10th Circuits
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Western, and Northern Districts of New York
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
Memberships
Yale Law School, Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, Co-Director; Clinical Lecturer in Law; Senior Research Scholar
New York Committee on Open Government
International Bar Association, Media Law Committee, past Chair
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, IP Council, past Chair; past Executive Committee; Communications and Media Law Committee, past Chair
ABA Forum on Communications Law, past Governing Board member
Media Law Resource Center, Defense Counsel Section, past President
Practising Law Institute, Newsgathering and Libel Litigation Biennial Conference, past Co-Chair
Sedona Conference Working Group on Protective Orders, Confidentiality & Public Access, 2007
Education
Yale Law School (J.D. 1978)
Yale University (M.A. Economics 1976)
Knox College (B.A. 1974, magna cum laude)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense