Jared O. Freedman is a litigator.  He represents clients in a wide array of new media, traditional media and other cases at both the trial and appellate level, with a focus on online copyright issues.  Mr. Freedman has first-chair trial experience, and has managed all aspects of complex civil litigation, including presenting opening argument, conducting direct and cross examinations of witnesses, arguing dispositive and evidentiary motions, and working closely with expert witnesses.

Mr. Freedman is a member of the Media and First Amendment and Content, Media & Entertainment Practices. He has represented the record industry and recording artists in a series of proceedings before the United States Copyright Royalty Board.  His appellate practice has included drafting several briefs in copyright cases on behalf of the recording industry in the United States Supreme Court and federal courts of appeals.  He has also obtained a victory for major media clients in a Seventh Circuit defamation appeal.

Mr. Freedman has an active pro bono practice, including representing a foreign national seeking asylum as a result of persecution in his own country and a death-row inmate in habeas corpus proceedings.  He has also successfully represented a petitioner seeking a stay of deportation pending appeal in the United States Supreme Court and has drafted amicus briefs to the Supreme Court on issues such as the constitutionality of federal legislation regulating speech on the Internet.