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George Freeman, assistant general counsel for The New York Times Co. since 1992, will discuss “The New York Times and the First Amendment” from 10-11 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 27 in the Barbieri Courtroom at the Gonzaga University School of Law.

         The lecture, sponsored by the Gonzaga Student Body Association, is free and open to the public and is part of the Gonzaga Readership Program in conjunction with the New York Times.

         Freeman’s primary responsibility is for The New York Times’ litigations. Also, he is involved in newsroom counseling, anti-trust and distribution problems, employment relations and business counseling involving The Times’ news, advertising, circulation and personnel departments. He has worked in these areas for the company’s affiliated newspapers and broadcast properties as well, since he began work for The Times in 1981.

Freeman is chair of the American Bar Association Litigation Section’s First Amendment and Media Litigation Committee. He is also immediate past chair of the ABA ’s Forum on Communication Law. From 1992 -1996, he chaired the New York State Bar Association Media Law Committee. Previously, Freeman had served as chair of that organization’s Cameras in the Courts Subcommittee. He also chairs the Access and Newsgathering Subcommittee of the Newspaper Association of America’s Legal Affairs Committee. Freeman is a frequent lecturer and moderator of panels dealing with aspects of the First Amendment.

For more information, please contact Julia Esser via e-mail.