Victor A Kovner

Practice Areas

With more than 50 years of practice, Victor Kovner has been instrumental in strengthening the First Amendment protections that are valuable to our media clients, and Victor continues to advise filmmakers, authors, and publishers of all kinds. Beyond his legal practice at the firm, he has devoted himself to the legal community, serving as the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York and Chair of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

His practice is by no means limited to First Amendment work. In recent years, he has been doing much estate and foundation work, as well as profit and nonprofit corporate work, and has been assisting entities that are subject to government regulation.

Professional Memberships

Board Member and Former Chair, The Fund for Modern Courts, 1975-present

Board Member and Former Chair, Legal Affairs Committee, Association of Magazine Media, 2004-present

Co-founder, Media Law Resource Center

Advisory Board, Media Law Reporter, 1990-present

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

Founder, Lankenau Kovner & Outten, which merged with Davis Wright Tremaine in 1998

Member and Former Chair, New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, 1976-1990

Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, 1990-1991