First Amendment Clinic

David J. Bodney, Senior Counsel. at Ballard Spahr LLP, is a litigator who focuses on media and constitutional law and is the founder of Ballard Spahr's media law practice. For over 40 years, he has defended print, broadcast, and electronic media in defamation, privacy, and related First Amendment law cases. In addition, he has significant experience litigating complex commercial disputes, handling matters involving intellectual property, Native American law, and governmental affairs issues. His practice includes actions to secure open government, block prior restraints and subpoenas of reporters by government and third parties, and handling commercial speech, intellectual property law, and voting rights issues.

Kathy Brody, an attorney at Mitchell Stein Carey Chapman, is the former Legal Director of the ACLU of Arizona. She handles all types of criminal, regulatory, and administrative matters. Her practice focuses on defense in government investigations and handling complex matters where criminal law issues intersect with constitutional rights, civil liability, politics, and public relations. She has extensive expertise in legal ethics and professional responsibility and has served on the Arizona State Bar Ethics Committee and as the editorial board co-chair for the most recent edition of the Arizona Legal Ethics Handbook.

Paul Eckstein, a partner at Perkins Coie LLP, focuses on civil litigation (including appellate matters) involving commercial, legal malpractice, constitutional, Indian law, and political law issues. He also frequently serves as a mediator and arbitrator and teaches Constitutional Law.

Jon Riches, the Director of National Litigation & General Counsel at the Goldwater Institute, litigates in federal and state trial and appellate courts in the areas of economic liberty, taxpayer rights, public union, and pension reform, government transparency, free speech, and school choice, among others. He has developed and authored several pieces of legislation. He has previously served on active duty in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps, clerked for Sen. Jon Kyl on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and clerked in the Office of Counsel to the President.