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The AAJ Explains Its Media Ban

By Robert J. Ambrogi

In response to my post, The AAJ's Misguided Media Ban, I received an e-mail from Ray De Lorenzi, the AAJ's associate director of communications, who I mentioned in the post. He invited me to republish his e-mail here, so here it is: Robert- I saw your blog item and wanted to clarify a few things: First, my statement that AAJ has never allowed media at our convention was overly broad. However, we have not allowed media at our last several conventions - this is not a recent change in policy. If we received an influx of media requests to attend our convention, this would have led us to reconsider our current policy; however, this has not been the case. This particular reporter who attempted to attend our convention is from a publication called Legal Newsline. Legal Newsline is owned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform and continually distorts and misrepresents the civil justice system and the work plaintiffs' attorneys do. While you may disagree with our decision to close this event to press, we continually communicate with the media and general public about our legislative agenda and other priorities. We disagree with your claim that our...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on July 28, 2009 (boomark / email).