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Jonathan M. Albano focuses his practice primarily on commercial, media, and appellate litigation. He has tried to completion jury trials, bench trials, and arbitrations and has argued over 40 appeals. Jon’s commercial litigation work includes representation of private and public companies and financial institutions in multimillion-dollar litigation claims. He has tried and obtained favorable results for clients in contract disputes, libel, purchase price adjustment, and complex construction claims.
Jon’s practice also includes representing newspapers, entertainment and news broadcasters, publishers, universities, nonprofit organizations, and individuals in cases involving a variety of constitutional issues, including free speech rights; the public’s right of access to information; and privacy, defamation and equal protection claims. He is a contributing author to the Survey of Privacy and Related Claims Against the Media, the Massachusetts Tort Handbook, and the Massachusetts Journalists’ Court and Legal Handbook.
Jon is the President of the Boston Bar Association and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Boston Bar Foundation. He is listed in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Business Lawyers, General Commercial Litigation and First Amendment Litigation; Best Lawyers in America, First Amendment practice; Super Lawyers; and the upcoming 2014 Benchmark Litigation Guide. Jon was named one of 2008’s Lawyers of the Year by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and in 2013 received the Boston Bar Association’s President's Award.
Before joining Morgan Lewis, Jon was a partner in the general commercial litigation and intellectual property practices at another international law firm.
Commercial Matters and Reported Cases
First Amendment and Constitutional Cases
Band 1, General Commercial Litigation (Massachusetts), Chambers USA (2010–2020)
Ranked, First Amendment Litigation, Nationwide, Chambers USA (2007–2009, 2012–2020)
Recognized, Benchmark Litigation Star (2017, 2018)
Recognized, Litigation – First Amendment, Boston; Media Law, Boston, The Best Lawyers in America (1995–2020)
Recognized, First Amendment Law, Boston, The Best Lawyers in America (1995–2020)
Recognized, Commercial Litigation, Boston, The Best Lawyers in America (2019, 2020)
Lawyer of the Year, First Amendment Law, Boston, The Best Lawyers in America (2013)
Recognized, First Amendment Law, Media Law and Advertising Law, New England Super Lawyers (2011–2012)
Recognized, Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2004–2012)
Recognized, Cross-Border Competition and Leniency Handbook (2012)
Named in “The Power List” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2009)
Appointed to ad hoc advisory committee, Massachusetts Supreme Court (2008)
Lawyer of the Year, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2008)
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
Member, American Bar Association
President, Boston Bar Association
Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
Member, Boston Bar Foundation Board of Trustees
Advisory Board, Center for Community and Ethnic Media, City University of New York’s (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism
Member, Governing Committee, ABA Media Law Forum
Executive Editor, Boston College Law Review (1981–1982)