Damon Dunn

• Includes cases arising under: Article III, Commerce and Bankruptcy Clauses, and First, Second, Fifth and Seventh Amendments to the Constitution; securities and antitrust laws; commercial and consumer disputes, class actions; intellectual property, media, internet and advertising law; labor and employment; trust law; federal preemption; environmental remediation and miscellaneous disputes. Representation in Federal investigations and prosecutions of defendants, persons of interest and witnesses. Appellate precedents include:  A&R Logistics Holdings v FdG Logistics (Del.: mergers and acquisitions); Baker v. America’s Mortgage Servicing (CA 7; federal instrumentalities); Brennan v. Kadner (Ill. App.: defamation); Chicago Typographical Union v. Chicago Sun-Times (CA 7: labor injunctions); Chicago Style Productions v Chicago Sun-Times (Ill App.: copyright jurisdiction); Goodman v Goodman (Ill. App.: litigation privilege); Harrison v. Chicago Sun Times (Ill. App.: defamation); Hirschauer v. The Chicago Sun-Times (Ill. App.: distribution rights); Hoffman v. Primedia (CA 7: employment discrimination); IFSC v. Chromas Technologies Canada (CA 7^th: seventh amendment); Imperial Design v. Cosmo’s Designer Direct, et al. (Ill.:  First Amendment advertising); Kapotas v. BGA et al (Ill. App.: speech torts); Knafel v. Chicago Sun-Times (CA 7: defamation); Kornick v Goodman (Ill. App.: internet texting); Marks v CDW (CA 7: securities fraud); Marsalis v The Reader (CA 11: internet jurisdiction); Seith v Neal (Ill. App.: defamation); Sheehan v. Daily Racing Form, (CA 7: age discrimination); Underwager v. Channel 9 Australia, et al. (CA 9: First Amendment extraterritoriality); USA v Security Industrial Bank, et al. (US: bankruptcy judges); Ward v. Succession of Freeman, et al. (CA 5: tender offers); Williams Electronics Games v. Garrity, et al. (CA 7: defalcation and commercial bribery).

Education:

• Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology, J.D., with High Honors
  • Bar and Gavel Society
  • Moot Court Society CJ
  • American College of Trial Lawyers’ Medal for Excellence
  • New York Bar Association’s Evan Hughes Trophy
  • National Moot Court Competition Final Four
  • 56 Chicago Kent Law Review 911 National Moot Court Best Brief
• College of Wooster, B.A., with Honors

Admissions:

• Supreme Court of the United States
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar)
• Various federal districts and state jurisdictions
• Admitted to Practice in Illinois

• “Top Lawyers of Chicago” (Chicago Tribune)
• “AV Preeminent” Peer Review Rating (highest Martindale Hubbell certification)
• “Illinois Leading Lawyer”: Advertising and Media Law; Intellectual Property; Civil Appellate Law; Commercial Litigation; Civil Rights/Constitutional Law; and ADR (Top 5% of Peer Reviewed Illinois Lawyers)
• Portrayed in Soulless, the case against R. Kelly, James DeRogatis (Abrams 2020).
• Quoted: Publishing Executive; Entrepreneur; LA Times; Chicago Tribune; Chicago Sun-Times; Pioneer Press; Chicago Reader; Editor & Publisher; Law 360; Chicago Daily Law Bulletin; Daily Finance.

• ISBA, CBA
• Media Law Research Center
• DePaul University Center for Journalistic Integrity and Excellence, FOIA fellow
• Innocence Project Board (2015-16)

No joking matter: Sarcastic tweets not (yet) an Unfair Labor Practice