Doerner Saunders Daniel & Anderson attorneys represent many media companies and entities in Oklahoma, including Griffin Communications, member newspapers of The Oklahoma Press Association, Journal Broadcast Group, and the Oklahoma Publishing Company. In representing media entities, our lawyers take on defamation, privacy and First Amendment rights cases in Oklahoma.

The services we provide to radio, television and print media companies include:

• Defending suits for libel, slander and all privacy torts

• Drafting and negotiating business agreements

• Employment agreements for on-air personalities

• General legal counsel in employment law and business matters

• Pre-publication / Pre-broadcast review

• General news access and news gathering consultation

• Defense of news media outlets and journalists against subpoenas

In addition to Oklahoma media companies, we represent national media companies which have outlets or cover news stories in the state. For example, our lawyers have represented Harper's Magazine, the Dallas Morning News and CBS News in several cases from 1984 through 2007.

Doerner Saunders Daniel & Anderson is a member of the defense counsel section of the Media Law Resource Center and authors the Oklahoma section of the MLRC's annual "50-State Survey of Media Privacy and Related Law." Our lawyers serve as counsel for the Legal Aid service for the Oklahoma Newspaper Association.

Media and First Amendment Law Attorneys

Our media and First Amendment law attorneys include a past chairman of the Oklahoma Bar Association Bar-Media Relations Committee, a member of the American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law, and a former solicited articles editor for the Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice. Two of our lawyers are listed in the Best Lawyers in America under the "First Amendment Law" category.