James Goodale

James Goodale (born July 27, 1933) is a leading First Amendment lawyer currently at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He is the former General Counsel and Vice Chairman of The New York Times and has represented the Times in all four of its cases that have reached the United States Supreme Court. He has also been called “the father of the reporters' privilege.”

He was the leading force behind the Times’ decision to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971. After the Times’ outside counsel, Lord Day & Lord, advised the Times against publishing classified information and quit when the United States Justice Department threatened to sue the paper to stop publication, Goodale led his own legal team and directed the strategy that resulted in winning the Supreme Court case of New York Times v. United States.

He created a First Amendment bar association for lawyers representing media companies and conducts a continuing education seminar at the Practising Law Institute on Communications Law.

He has hosted and produced a half hour TV show Digital Age on WNYE-TV covering media and legal issues since 1996. He has written over 200 articles on media law and press freedom for many publications, including The New York Times, New York Review of Books and The Daily Beast.

Goodale has taught for over thirty years at Yale, New York University, and Fordham Law Schools.

Read more about James Goodale:  Education and Early Career, New York Times, Post-New York Times Career, Personal Life

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