Sonnenschein Adds Litigator Blaine C. Kimrey in Chicago
June 12, 2006
(CHICAGO, June 12, 2006)—Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP today announced that Blaine C. Kimrey has joined the law firm as a partner in its Chicago office and a member of the national Litigation and Business Regulation Group. He will focus on media, entertainment, Internet, intellectual property and commercial litigation matters.
“Blaine is one of the best young litigators in the city,” said Robert C. Johnson, chair of Sonnenschein’s Litigation and Business Regulation Group. “His depth of experience, particularly in the media defense bar, will be invaluable to our clients in Chicago and across the country.”
Kimrey represents media clients in matters ranging from defamation and invasion of privacy to those related to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. His Internet litigation experience includes defamation, invasion of privacy, copyright, trademark, digital discovery and other issues. He also provides pre-publication and pre-broadcast review on such issues as defamation, invasion of privacy, trade secret protection, trademarks and copyright, and drafts and negotiates Web development, licensing and other technology agreements.
Kimrey is a vice chair of the ABA Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section’s Media, Privacy and Defamation Law Committee and chair of the Committee’s Insurance Task Force. From 2000 to 2003, he served as chair of the Missouri Bar Media Law Committee and was vice chair of the Kansas City Media and the Law Seminar in 2003. He performs pro bono work on behalf of media entities and indigent criminal defendants.
In addition to being a former journalist at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Austin American-Statesman, Kimrey is the author of numerous media-related legal articles. His most recent speaking engagements include “Blogging and Gripe Sites: Balancing the Law and Public Relations,” which he presented at the Hot Issues in Technology, the Internet, and e-Commerce 2006 conferences in San Francisco and Palo Alto, Calif.
Kimrey received a J.D. degree, with honors, from the University of Texas School of Law, where he won the Award for Highest Achievement in Mass Communications and the Albert P. Jones Presidential Scholarship for Excellence in Oral Advocacy, was chief articles editor of The Review of Litigation, and was inducted into the Order of Barristers. He earned a B.S. degree, Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Tau Alpha, in journalism from the University of Kansas. Most recently, he was an associate with Winston & Strawn LLP in Chicago.
Sonnenschein, with more than 700 attorneys and other professionals in 10 U.S. cities and a global reach, serves the legal needs of many of the world’s largest and best-known businesses, nonprofits and individuals. For more information, visit www.sonnenschein.com.
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Linda Butler
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
(312) 876-3453
LButler@sonnenschein.com
