Leita Walker

Practice Areas

Leita Walker is a litigator and trial lawyer in the firm's Media and Entertainment Law Group. She has nearly 15 years of experience defending media organizations in libel litigation and helping them obtain access to governmental and judicial records.

Leita’s First Amendment practice includes defending libel, privacy, and right of publicity claims in trial and appellate courts across the country; prepublication vetting of both news and entertainment content; and advising clients on subpoenas and privilege issues, copyright law, and state and federal Freedom of Information Act laws.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Leita wrote for The Christian Science Monitor, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and the Lawrence Journal-World.

Career

Admissions: Iowa, Minnesota, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Iowa

Professional Memberships

Executive Committee Member, Defense Counsel Section of the Media Law Resource Center

Faculty Member, Communications Law in the Digital Age annual conference, hosted by the Practising Law Institute

Member, Federal Rules Committee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Personal

University of Kansas School of Law (J.D. 2006)

Editor-in-Chief, Kansas Law Review

Valedictorian

Order of the Coif

University of Kansas (B.S. 2002)

Editor-in-Chief, University Daily Kansan