#FIRST AMENDMENT PRO#
We have similarly advised clients in matters implicating the rights to petition the government and to freely assemble.Ĭonsistent with the firm’s commitment to giving back to our communities and serving those less fortunate, our First Amendment Litigation practice annually donates thousands of hours of pro bono legal services in support of clients’ First Amendment rights.
We also represent and advise organizations including churches, schools and universities, broadcasters, healthcare institutions, and philanthropic and community organizations on issues implicating the free exercise or establishment of religion. We represent publishers, broadcasters, advertisers, and others in complex cases implicating the freedoms of speech and press. Sidley’s First Amendment practice draws together the firm’s extensive experience with First Amendment principles, and deploys that knowledge in the service of clients across our many practice areas. And First Amendment issues increasingly arise not only in litigation and regulatory settings, but also in transactional contexts. First Amendment considerations arise routinely in a wide range of substantive areas of law, from communications to competition to land use to taxation. Modern First Amendment law comprises a dizzying array of legal rules and doctrines applying to governmental and quasi-governmental entities and institutions at the federal, state, and local levels. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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