Protecting Your First Amendment Rights
Please contact me at my new firm. I have joined FisherBroyles, LLP as a partner in their Atlanta office. A firm with 23 global offices and 270 lawyers, FisherBroyles will help me provide clients with additional resources to manage their legal needs. My practice will continue to focus on libel, privacy and First Amendment matters. This site will stay active primarily as an archive and where you can find our blog posts. You can reach me at 404 550 6233 or by going to the FisherBroyles site. I look forward to hearing from you.
More about Cynthia Counts
Cynthia L. Counts has more than 20 years of trial and appellate experience. Over the course of her career, she has established a practice focusing on media and First Amendment law. Ms. Counts defends individuals, newspapers, websites, television stations and small businesses in libel, copyright and trademark infringement claims, as well as breach of contract, invasion of privacy, fraud and promissory estoppel cases. She has represented well-established media companies, newspapers, broadcasters and publishing companies in prepublication review and emergency court hearings to contest motions for injunctions as unconstitutional prior restraints, to quash subpoenas on the basis of reporter’s privilege and to gain access to court proceedings or public documents. Ms. Counts has been at the forefront of the quest for a broad application of Georgia’s anti-SLAPP statute, enacted in 1996 to provide an early mechanism for the dismissal of harassing libel litigation.
Ms. Counts is a sought-after commentator and writer on libel, privacy, Internet, the First Amendment and open government law. In 2014, she became a member of the governing board of the American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law. Ms. Counts is an adjunct professor teaching media law at Emory University Law School. She has been selected as one of Georgia’s Super Lawyers and is AV® Preeminent Peer Review rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Ms. Counts is a 1992 graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law and a cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.