USA
Practice Areas
Jay Ward Brown has been representing news and entertainment companies for 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 also regularly serves as clearance counsel for producers of documentary films and TV series—including Oscar-, Emmy-, and Dupont-Columbia Award-winning productions—and provides legal vetting of stories for newspaper and magazine publishers.
Career
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
Professional 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
Personal
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
