Alison Stein

Career

Technology, entertainment, and media companies turn to Alison Stein to handle their most high-stakes litigation, and to protect and leverage their unique content. Repeatedly recognized in legal and entertainment industry publications as among the best in her field, Alison excels in the emotionally charged arena of content use legalities. Clients rely on her proven counsel, strategic know-how and trial experience to address issues ranging from copyright, content moderation and protection, AI and immersive technologies, and trademark, to DMCA, trade secrets, compliance, defamation, and contractual and licensing disputes.

A Co-Chair of the Content, Media, and Entertainment and Technology practices, Alison represents a who’s who of media organizations, technology companies, video game companies, television and movie studios, fashion and beauty companies, record labels, financial organizations, authors and artists. Her cases often are so significant that national media outlets publish their outcomes. Alison also serves as a Co-Chair of the Media Law Resource Center’s Internet & Technology Law Committee, on the Board of Directors for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and on the Management Committee of the law firm.

Alison is also in high demand to help companies vet individuals for high-profile appointments in the content, tech, media and political space by assessing content and freedom of expression issues and potential conflicts of interest. Additionally, she has guided clients through sensitive internal investigations involving cultural, gender and racial issues. Finally, Alison represents corporations and individuals in criminal and regulatory matters, including before various state, federal and congressional bodies. She is frequently named among the top lawyers in her field by Chambers, and has also been recognized by Crain's and The Hollywood Reporter, with clients noting, "Alison is amazing. She's strategic, thorough and a great communicator." "She consistently provides high-level guidance. She is brilliant, thoughtful, responsive and business-savvy."

Alison maintains an active pro bono practice, which has ranged from filing an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court on reproductive rights, litigating a matter including a trial for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, representing an individual inmate in a civil rights litigation, and representing artists and performing arts organizations in contract disputes. She and the team representing Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin were the recipients of the 2020 Albert E. Jenner Pro Bono Award for their work on the matter. Alison is also part of a team that represents Sarah Collins Rudolph, the “fifth little girl” who was grievously injured in the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, that took the life of her sister and three other girls. The team’s work, including their letter to Governor Kaye Ivey and the governor’s response apologizing to Ms. Rudolph, has been featured in numerous news reports including in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and on CNN.