LUKE C. PLATZER, Associate Washington, DC Office Office: (202) 639-6094 Fax: (202) 661-4813 Email: lplatzer@jenner.com  Add to Outlook Contacts

Luke C. Platzer is an associate in the Firm's Litigation Department.  He is a member of the Creative Content Practice.

Mr. Platzer’s practice focuses primarily on intellectual property and regulatory issues arising on the Internet and other new media platforms.  He has successfully represented the Firm's entertainment industry clients before the federal district courts in several cases involving the protection of entertainment content, including Arista Records LLC, et al. v. Usenet.com, Inc., No. 07 Civ. 8822 (S.D.N.Y. 2009) and Atlantic Record Corporation, et al. v. XM Satellite Radio, Inc., No. 06 CV 3733 (S.D.N.Y. 2007), and is currently part of the team in Viacom International, Inc., et al. v. YouTube, Inc., et al., No. 07 Civ. 2103 (S.D.N.Y.).  He also counsels the Firm's clients with respect to compliance and copyright issues involving their online properties.  As a member of the Firm's telecommunications practice, Mr. Platzer represents the Firm's clients in proceedings before the FCC, state regulatory commissions, and the D.C. Circuit, principally in cases involving the intersection of telecommunications regulation with new technologies.

Mr. Platzer has also successfully represented a number of the Firm's government clients in litigation involving government contracts, including in bid protest litigation before the Government Accountability Office and within other government agencies.  Recent published cases include Raytheon Company, Space and Airborne Systems, B-298626.2; B-298626.3, Sept. 27, 2007, 2007 CPD ¶ 185, where the Firm successfully defended the Army's award of the contract for the Joint Cargo Aircraft program, and L-3 Communications Titan Corporation, B-299317 et al., Mar. 29, 2007, 2007 CPD ¶ 66, where the Firm successfully protested the Army's award of the contract to provide linguist and translator services to U.S. forces serving in Iraq.

Mr. Platzer obtained his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he graduated Order of the Coif and served as Assistant Articles Editor on the Stanford Law Review and as Vice-President of OutLaw.  He was also named the Nathan Abbott Scholar for graduating first in his law school class.  Mr. Platzer received his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College.  From 2003 to 2004, he clerked for the Honorable Judith W. Rogers on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Mr. Platzer is a member of the District of Columbia and New York Bars.