Following the merger of the long-established and highly regarded boutique firm Zeev Liond & Co. into the firm, the firm’s practice has expanded to include the legal fields of media and communications law, including defamation and press law.
Advocates Zeev and Dor Liond, who head the department, bring many years of experience and an extensive track record in handling complex, high-profile defamation claims, alongside ongoing legal counsel to leading media organizations in Israel. This practice has consistently been ranked in the elite tier of Israel’s leading law firms in the field of defamation.
The department represents, among others, prominent print and broadcast media organizations, digital news websites, publishers, senior journalists and production companies, as well as public figures, businesspeople and commercial entities.
The department provides preliminary and ongoing legal advice to editors, journalists and content teams, from the early stages of developing an investigative report, article or broadcast, through publication and airing. The legal team’s command of the full range of relevant legal issues — including defamation law, privacy protection, publication bans, journalistic privilege, freedom of information, journalistic ethics, copyright and more — enables it to provide clients with precise, rapid and practical legal advice tailored to the pace of work of newsrooms, content websites and broadcasters.
The department heads’ deep familiarity with the media industry and with clients’ business environments enables the firm to provide significant added value, including to public figures, businesspeople and commercial entities, not only on the legal level but also on the communications and strategic level.
In addition, the department provides a comprehensive legal framework for all aspects of the commercial activity of media and press organizations, including mergers and acquisitions of content businesses, distribution and marketing agreements, advertising agreements, and extensive commercial activity in the printing industry and on online platforms.
The department represents clients before all courts, including petitions to the High Court of Justice, as well as before regulators, Knesset committees and other public forums.
Notable Cases:
- LCA 3254/96 Schocken Network v. Israel Land Development Company — journalistic privilege in a defamation action
- CC 1121/07 Liora Glatt-Berkowitz v. Baruch Kra et al. — journalistic privilege and source protection
- CrimA 1682/21 Reshet Media and Raviv Drucker v. Benjamin Netanyahu et al. — publication of documentation from a police interrogation
- CC 63319-07-22 Yehuda Peretz v. Aviad Glickman et al. — the significance of the manner in which a subject of journalistic publication responds to a request for comment before broadcast
- CC 59951-01-22 Hofstein v. Politically Corret, Reshet Media et al. — the scope of a television channel’s liability for statements made by an interviewee and for sharing a journalistic publication on a social network
- CC 47819-12-21 Shai Shama v. Reshet Media — a SLAPP suit
