Elizabeth C Koch

Work Experience

• Partner
• Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP
• 1997 - Present

Education

• University of Michigan Law School
• JD - Juris Doctor
• 1986

• Vassar College
• A.B.
• 1983

Legal Cases

• Lluberes v. Uncommon Productions, LLC, 663 F.3d 6 (1st Cir. 2011).
• appellate court upheld finding that plaintiffs are public figures

• In re Subpoena to Jeffrey Goldberg, 693 F. Supp. 2d 81 (D.D.C. 2010
• subpoena to journalist quashed

• OAO Alfa-Bank v. Center for Public Integrity, 387 F. Supp. 2d 20 (D.D.C. 2005).
• defamation action dismissed on summary judgment

Associations

• American Bar Association, Forum on Communications Law
• Governing Board member
• 2000 - 2003

Honors and Awards

• Media Lawyers in Washington, D.C.
• Best Lawyers
• 2012

• First Amendment/Media/Advertising and Intellectual Property
• DC Super Lawyer
• 2012

Publications

• Media Law Resource Center 50 State Survey
• Survey of DC Circuit Libel Law, in Annual Media Libel Law Survey
• 2012

• Risk & Insurance
• Mind the Gap: Companies Face Marketing-Related Legal Claims That Their CGL Insurance Policies No Longer Cover
• 2011

• Communications Lawyer
• American Geophysical Union v. Texaco: Could Developments in Copyright Law Pull the Plug on the Office Copier
• 1993