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
