Ballard Spahr LLP

Litigation

Partner and Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Media and Entertainment Law Group

Chad R. Bowman's practice as a counselor and litigator focuses on working with new and legacy media organizations, as well as other nonprofit and for-profit entities engaged in public advocacy and speech. Chad is Practice Leader of the firm's Media and Entertainment Law Group.

As a counselor, Chad regularly advises clients about publication risk, reviewing draft television news scripts, magazine features, newspaper reports, digital media stories, and other content, as well as advising about newsgathering and intellectual property issues. As a litigator, Chad has represented media clients in state and federal courts around the country in contested defamation, privacy, copyright, subpoena, access, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), marketing, and related First Amendment matters. Chad also provides regular pro bono counseling to several nonprofit advocacy organizations.

Prior to attending law school, Chad worked as reporter at weekly and daily newspapers and at The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA), covering a variety of local and national beats.

Chad was a partner at the highly regarded First Amendment boutique law firm Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, which merged with Ballard Spahr in October 2017.

ABA Intellectual Property Litigation Committee

D.C. Bar Media & Entertainment Law Committee

D.C. Open Government Coalition, Board of Directors

District of Columbia

Maryland

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and District of Columbia Circuits

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 2003, magna cum laude) Georgetown Law Journal, Editor of the Annual Review of Criminal Procedure Order of the Coif

Alfred University (B.A. 1994, cum laude) Distinguished Scholar Honors