Cameron Stracher has more than thirty years experience as a media and entertainment lawyer. His clients include major broadcast and cable networks, national newspapers and magazines, production companies, podcasters and streaming services, and many local and regional news and entertainment companies, websites, authors, reporters, and other talented people.
Cameron is a magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College (B.A. 1983), Harvard Law School (J.D. 1987), and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop (M.F.A. 1991). From 1994 to 1999 he was litigation counsel at CBS, and from 1999 to 2004 he was an associate with Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, and then a partner at the firm. He became Senior Vice President and Special Counsel at Media Professional Insurance (now Axis), before leaving to start his own practice and returning to LSKS as Of Counsel. During that time, he taught law at New York Law School and co-founded the school’s Program in Law & Journalism. Most recently, he represented American Media, publisher of the National Enquirer, Us Weekly, In Touch, Life & Style, Star, and OK! magazines, where he held the title General Counsel – Media, and supervised all of AMI’s litigation and pre-publication review. At present, among his other clients, he handles U.S. pre-publication review for Newsweek and MailOnline, and represents the producers of the hit series Secrets of Playboy, Quiet On Set and On Patrol Live (and, previously, Live PD)
In addition to his legal work, Cameron is the author of six books, and numerous essays and opinion pieces for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
Cameron is admitted to practice in the courts of New York and Connecticut, as well as the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of Connecticut.