One-Day Law School for Journalists 2025

Our One-Day Law School for Journalists™ is an intensive program designed to support journalists and others in the media who face the challenge of reporting on the court system without a law degree.

Session 1: Preliminary Injunctions 101

Panelists: Prof. David Sonenshein, Sozi Tulante, Esq. (Dechert LLP) and Judge Mark Kearney (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania)

Session 2: Understanding What the Media/Press Can & Cannot Do Inside the Courtroom and Its Environs

Panelists: Melissa Melewsky, Esq. (Media Law Counsel, Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association) and Paul Safier, Esq. (Ballard Spahr)

Session 3: Roundtable Discussion: The Tension Between Disclosure of Information About the Judiciary and Threats to the Judiciary

Panelists: Matt Schafer, Esq. (CBS/Paramount), Christopher Mohr, Esq. (President of the Software & Information Industry Association), Ret. Judge Paul Wilson, Esq. (MA. Superior), moderator Amy Sanders, Esq. (Penn State)

Session 4: Is there a Journalist Privilege? And For Whom? And Protecting What?

Panelists: Eli Segal, Esq. (Stapleton Segal Cochran LLC) and Chris Brennan (USA Today)

Session 5: Obtaining Bodycam Footage and Law Enforcement Records in PA

Panelists: Paula Knudsen Burke, Esq. (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press) and Terry Mutchler, Esq. (Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP)