Clark, Bryan

Mr. Clark’s practice focuses on digital privacy and media defense work, including class action mobile-marketing litigation, TCPA litigation, data breach response, reporter's privilege issues, and pre-publication review. Mr. Clark is a member of the firm's Digital Privacy and Data Protection group as well as the firm's e-discovery group.  Mr. Clark has also been involved in a broad range of other litigation matters, including topics as diverse as environmental, construction, real estate foreclosure, and insurance. He has also been involved in a variety of pro bono engagements, including work for non-profit media entities, representation of an Illinois prisoner with multiple sclerosis, and Section 1983 civil rights litigation.  Mr. Clark is also a member of the firm's Diversity Committee.

Mr. Clark previously served as a PILI Fellow, working on civil liberties issues for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. He also previously worked as a Legal Intern for Media/Professional Insurance (now Axis Pro), where he assisted with libel, intellectual property, and insurance matters, analyzed court pleadings, and conducted pre-distribution review of documentaries for fair use and defamation issues.

While in law school, Mr. Clark participated in the Wiley Rutledge Moot Court Competition and worked in the Civil Rights and Community Justice Clinic. Prior to law school, Mr. Clark studied news editorial journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he won several awards for his writing at the Columbia Missourian.

Reported Decisions:

• Ford, et al. v. Bloosky, et al., 2011 WL 529265 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 4, 2011) (representing Bloosky)
• Abbas v. Selling Source, LLC, 2009 WL 4884471 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 14, 2009)

Prior Legal Experience:

• 2008-2009 - Associate, Sonnenchein Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, Illinois