Mr. Kutner represents media clients in a wide range of content-related matters, including cases involving defamation, access to courts and sealed documents, intellectual property, and freedom of information laws.
Previously, he was the First Amendment Fellow at the New York Times Company, where he counseled reporters on legal issues, litigated and argued access, reporter’s privilege, and public records cases in state and federal court, and provided prepublication review.
Mr. Kutner has also worked as a news reporter before and during his legal career. His articles have been published in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Huffington Post, filed from around the United States and from other countries, including China, Indonesia, South Africa, Kosovo, and Colombia. He previously lived in Guangzhou, China, as a fellow with the Yale-China Association.
Mr. Kutner previously was with the highly regarded First Amendment boutique law firm Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, which merged with Ballard Spahr in October 2017.
EDUCATION
Yale Law School (J.D. 2012)
Student Director, Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic
Yale University (B.A. 2006, magna cum laude)
Magazine Editor, Yale Daily News
Phi Beta Kappa
ADMISSIONS
New York
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
