Elizabeth A McNamara

Practice Areas

Elizabeth McNamara specializes in complex media, intellectual property, and internet law. With extensive trial and appellate litigation experience across the country, Liz regularly represents clients in high-profile, cutting-edge litigations involving challenges to content and technology. Liz represents a broad spectrum of media and publishing entities, and she has handled many of the leading cases involving prior restraint, defamation, the intersection of commercial and editorial/entertainment litigation, and developing IP issues.

Liz has represented Associated Press, CBS, CNN, Condé Nast, Financial Times, Hachette Book Group, Insider, Macmillan, Microsoft, NBC, Penguin Random House, Rolling Stone, Sesame Workshop, Showtime, Simon & Schuster, TikTok, Time Inc., and Wenner Media.

Professional Memberships

Former Chair, Committee on Communications and Media Law, New York City Bar Association

Former East Coast Representative, Forum on Communications Law

Communications and Entertainment Committee, New York State Bar Association

The Copyright Society of the USA

Lawyers Committee, Association of American Publishers