Nathan E Siegel

Practice Areas

Media clients often turn to Nathan Siegel with their most challenging cases and thorniest questions. He represents media companies in First Amendment, intellectual property, and entertainment law cases in trial and appellate courts throughout the country. Additionally, Nathan provides pre-broadcast and pre-publication counseling to a wide range of print and web publishers, television networks, and film producers.

What Best Lawyers has called Nathan's "practical, client-friendly approach" focuses on sizing up complex matters at the outset, and then partnering with each client to choose and implement the strategy that best reflects its objectives. He handles defamation, privacy and all manner of media tort claims, and litigates copyright, trademark, right of publicity, theft of idea and other disputes over rights to media content. Nathan is a past President of the Defense Counsel Section of the Media Law Resource Center, the largest national organization of media defense counsel, and is a member of the Governing Committee of the ABA Forum on Communications Law.

Professional Memberships

Governing Committee, ABA Forum on Communications Law

Former President, Media Law Resource Center

Co-Editor, Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law, published by Southwestern Law School

Board of Trustees, Maryland-DC-Delaware Press Association

Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland Law School, Free Press Seminar, 2006-Present

Former Chair of the Model Shield Law Task Force and the New Legal Developments Committee, Media Law Resource Center

Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, 1994-1996