For decades, Graves Dougherty lawyers have helped shape the law on issues affecting First Amendment rights, especially the law of libel, privacy, incitement and the public's right of access to courtrooms, government documents and meetings.

Two Graves Dougherty lawyers are listed in Best Lawyers in America published by Woodward/White, Inc. in First Amendment law. Lawyers at Graves Dougherty have been frequent speakers on First Amendment, free speech, media law and religious liberty topics at seminars, classes, and continuing legal education courses, and have taught courses on media and law at the law school and university level. Graves Dougherty attorneys have broad experience representing all nature of media clients, including daily newspapers, local and national broadcasters, magazines, book publishers, film studios and Internet publishers of all sorts.