Judith Endejan - Seattle Communications & Media Lawyer Reviews & Ratings

For over two decades, Judy has served communications-related clients after working as a professional journalist. Her background is a unique blend of private practice and in-house experience. She has assisted media clients on a variety of content and newsgathering issues and has litigated public records and access cases. During 2006, Judy took off a year from private practice and worked as General Counsel for Fisher Communications, Inc., a major Northwest broadcast corporation. Her expertise in communications/media law was recognized when Seattle Magazine named her as one of the area’s top 155 lawyers in that field in January 2007. Judy also spent ten years with GTE Corporation (now Verizon) in the Northwest and California. During that time she acquired substantial experience in public utility regulation and administrative law.. Judy has significant experience counseling clients on legal matters central to their businesses, such as commercial contracts and employment issues. This counsel has involved preparation of, or negotiation of, complex commercial agreements such as interconnection, retransmission consent, program rights and affiliation agreements. She has written many types of employment agreements and has advised on employment law compliance and litigation. Judy has adapted to the changing needs of communications clients due to recent internet-based technological advances. She has produced privacy policies and terms of use agreements and addressed advertising and content issues associated with Web sites.. Judy is a frequent speaker at meetings, conferences and Continuing Legal Education seminars and has published in the area of communications law. Most recently, she wrote two chapters for the “Public Records Act Deskbook” published by the Washington State Bar Association in 2006.