Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Business & Commercial Disputes

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Jon Fetterly is an experienced litigator whose practice focuses on First Amendment litigation and commercial disputes. He serves as trial counsel for a national media company fighting in federal trial and appellate courts across the country for the right of the press and public to access court records. He also has experience enforcing statutory public records requests, responding to subpoenas, defending defamation and libel claims, and bringing anti-SLAPP motions.

In addition to his First Amendment and media law practice, Jon has a wide range of commercial litigation experience involving commercial transactions, shareholder disputes, government contracts and retail banking. His financial services litigation practice focuses on bank operations and customer disputes including fraud, unauthorized payments and other issues involving deposit accounts, negotiable instruments and credit products.

Early in his practice, Jon represented the Recording Industry Association of America in connection with the recording industry’s nationwide litigation against those who illegally distributed copyrighted sound recordings through file-sharing programs. In this capacity, he successfully prosecuted numerous copyright actions throughout the federal district courts of California.