For over 50 years, Butler Snow has represented local and national print and broadcast media, film and television companies, and authors in all aspects of state and federal media law. Butler Snow's aggressive and creative representation of media clients has resulted in some of the watershed decisions by the Supreme Court of Mississippi and the Fifth Circuit in the areas of defamation, privacy, prior restraint, and public records and open meetings law.
The firm, and its attorneys, host or take part in libel workshops throughout Mississippi and the nation and serve as legal counsel to the Mississippi Press Association, staffing its media hot line and contributing on a regular basis to The Fourth Estate, the Association's newsletter and other publications provided to MPA members. Butler Snow's media law team prepares the Mississippi section of the 50-State Survey of the Law of Defamation and Privacy and Mississippi section of the 50-State Survey of Employment Libel and Privacy Law, which are published biennially by the Media Libel Resource Center of New York City. The team is led by an attorney who has been listed in every edition of the First Amendment section of The Best Lawyers in America®.
For additional information on Media Law, please contact John C. Henegan.
