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Ballard Spahr LLP Offices
1909 K STREET, NW
12th FLOOR
WASHINGTON DC 20006-1157
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Chad Bowman
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Chad R. Bowman’s practice as a counselor and litigator focuses on working with new and legacy media organizations, as well as other nonprofit and for-profit entities engaged in public advocacy and speech.
As a counselor, Chad regularly advises clients about publication risk, reviewing draft television news scripts, magazine features, newspaper reports, digital media stories, and other content, as well as advising about newsgathering and intellectual property issues. As a litigator, Chad has represented media clients in state and federal courts around the country in contested defamation, privacy, copyright, subpoena, access, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), marketing, and related First Amendment matters. Chad also provides regular pro bono counseling to several nonprofit advocacy organizations.
Admissions
District of Columbia
Maryland
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Seventh, Eighth, and District of Columbia Circuits
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
Memberships
ABA Intellectual Property Litigation Committee
D.C. Bar Media & Entertainment Law Committee
D.C. Open Government Coalition, Board of Directors
Education
Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 2003, magna cum laude)
Georgetown Law Journal, Editor of the Annual Review of Criminal Procedure
Order of the Coif
Alfred University (B.A. 1994, cum laude)
Distinguished Scholar Honors
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense