Though all cases vary and none is predictive, Tom’s experience includes:

• Ongoing representation of a leading photographer in a copyright case involving an arts foundation's assertion of the fair use defense, including obtaining reversal of summary judgment in the Second Circuit and then affirmance in the Supreme Court.
• Successfully defending a major newspaper in a defamation lawsuit brought by a presidential campaign over statements in opinion columns about the Robert Mueller investigation.
• Successfully defending a cable television news organization in an appellate affirmance of the dismissal of a public official’s defamation lawsuit over the news organization’s coverage relating to the House of Representatives’ 2019 impeachment inquiry.
• Successfully defending a major internet service provider in 47 U.S.C. 230 litigation, including a D.C. Circuit appellate victory that earned the firm "Legal Lion" recognition in Law360 in 2020.
• Successfully defending a cable network and a production company in a defamation case arising from an investigation into the practices of a coal magnate.
• Representing a newspaper in successfully resolved defamation cases arising from breaking news coverage of a viral controversy.
• Representing television broadcast companies in obtaining summary judgment and a permanent injunction in copyright-infringement litigation against a service that engaged in the unauthorized transmission of television programming over the internet.
• Representing a nonprofit news organization in a successful First Amendment lawsuit in which the client won a permanent injunction against a jail authority's censorship of the organization's publications. 
• Representing record companies in ongoing copyright-infringement litigation against an internet cyberlocker company and its operators.
• Representing an online media company and reporters in successfully resolved defamation lawsuits arising from articles published on websites prior to the company’s acquisition of the websites.
• Representing a business news publisher in a successfully resolved defamation lawsuit arising from an article about a company’s insolvency.
• Successfully defending a national television broadcaster against right-of-publicity claims relating to the broadcasting of NCAA football and basketball games, brought on behalf of a putative class of college athletes.  The trial court dismissed the complaint with prejudice, a ruling affirmed on appeal.
• Representing record companies in a copyright-infringement lawsuit against an unauthorized online music streaming service in which the clients obtained a temporary restraining order within days of the service’s launch, followed by a permanent injunction.
• Successfully defending a business news publisher in a trade secrets lawsuit brought by an energy company suing over reporting about a presentation it gave to bondholders. The client obtained a dismissal with prejudice in the trial court.
• Successfully defending a cable network in a defamation case arising from a news-magazine program’s report on child labor practices in India in which the plaintiff sought tens of millions of dollars in damages; the jury returned a defense verdict at the conclusion of a four-week trial.
• Representing a television broadcaster plaintiff in successfully resolved breach of contract and copyright-infringement litigation arising from a satellite television provider’s service for making unauthorized copies of the broadcaster’s primetime programming for commercial-free playback.
• Representing motion picture studios in successfully resolved copyright litigation against providers of peer-to-peer file-sharing software, including the landmark MGM v. Grokster case, in which the studios won summary judgment on liability and obtained permanent injunctions.