Lathrop & Gage actively represents media outlets including advertising agencies, newspapers, television and radio stations, magazines and cable television operators. Click here for complete information regarding our media law practice. 

Lathrop & Gage has extensive experience defending claims of defamation and invasion of privacy and has assisted reporters on scores of occasions in obtaining access to meetings and records under the Missouri Sunshine Law, the Kansas Open Meetings Act, the Kansas Open Records Act, and the federal Freedom of Information Act, as well as access to judicial records and proceedings under federal and state constitutional principles. We have successfully quashed numerous subpoenas based on the reporter's privilege. Our media law practice includes many court appearances on behalf of reporters and the media, and the trial and appeal of lawsuits based upon state Sunshine Laws.