Biography

Stephen R. Fogle represents media companies and individual journalists, editors, publishers, and content producers on First Amendment, privacy, and news gathering issues and has wide experience in representing business clients on a complete range of commercial, construction, and contractual matters.

A veteran trial attorney, mediator, and arbitrator, Mr. Fogle has handled a wide range of claims based on allegations of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, First Amendment, and trespass in addition to an extensive list of trademark, trade dress, copyright, patent infringement, software contract, construction, real estate, nuisance, consumer protection statute, collection, telecommunication, professional malpractice, labor and employment, and prisoner's rights issues. He has a wide and varied experience in the use and defense of Temporary Restraining Orders, Temporary and Permanent Injunctions in media, commercial and intellectual property matters. Mr. Fogle is actively involved in the pre-publication review of articles, broadcasts, and investigative journalism pieces for his media clients as well as the development and implementation of litigation prevention strategies for all his clients.

Mr. Fogle's recent experience includes defending a neighborhood association accused of tortious interference with a contract by a landowner whose property was annexed after an extensive public debate over the planned use for that property; the defense of a media company accused of defamation by a local charity following the broadcast of an investigative story; and, defeating injunctions aimed at preventing the construction of communications towers in restricted subdivisions.

In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Fogle has been a state and federal court mediator since 1994, and in that time, he has assisted in the disposition of hundreds of cases through the mediation process. He has served as Master in Chancery to the 150th District Court of Bexar County, Texas, and as a discovery master in civil suits by request and agreement of the parties. In 1998, Mr. Fogle was selected and certified by the United States Postal Service to mediate employment issues at postal facilities throughout south Texas. In June 2000, he was appointed to the Blue Ribbon Panel of Mediators for the Rio Grande District of the Postal Service. In 2003, he began serving as an Arbitrator for parties upon request, became a certified Arbitrator in 2007 and is on several panels with Conflict Solutions of Texas, Inc. Mr. Fogle also teaches media law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of the Incarnate Word - School of Media and Design.

Military

From 1976 to 1983, Mr. Fogle served as a Captain in the United States Army Field Artillery.

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Organization Membership

Mr. Fogle is active in the William Sessions American Inn of Court where he serves as President and Master of the Bench, the American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law, where he served as the Vice-Chair of the Media, Defamation and Privacy Law Committee and is a member of the Media Law Resource Center's First Amendment Speakers Bureau.

Community Involvement

Mr. Fogle is a graduate of Leadership San Antonio, a Life Fellow of both the Texas and San Antonio Bar Foundations and serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Returning Heroes Home, Inc. which supports the Warrior & Family Support Center in providing a home away from home and a place of healing for those recovering from injuries and wounds sustained in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is on the board of directors of the National Alumni Association for Western Kentucky University (2012-2015).

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Peer Recognition

In 2012, Mr. Fogle received the Ethical Life Award from the Association of Corporate Counsel — South/Central Texas Chapter and was inducted into the Western Kentucky University ROTC Hall of Fame. 

Based on his trial experience and standing in the community, Mr. Fogle was elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates in 2003 and is rated "AV-Preeminent" by his peers in the Martindale-Hubble legal directory.

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Speeches / Publications

Mr. Fogle is a frequent speaker at CLE seminars, serves frequently as a faculty member of Trial Advocacy programs through local and state bar associations, and has authored several papers on media, First Amendment, litigation, mediation, and arbitration issues.

Links to Publications

• VIA Media Postcard: Out of the Blue
• VIA Media Postcard: Voting Matters
• VIA Media Postcard: Valor Cannot Be Stolen
• VIA Media Postcard - Website's Role in Anchoring Jurisdiction in Texas: A New (or Old) Standard?
• VIA Media Postcard: Lest We Forget
• VIA Media Postcard: The Texas Free Flow of Information Act - A Legislative Success Story
• VIA Media Postcard: The Internet Past 40: Too Many Voices or Just Not Enough Good Ones?
• Texas Supreme Court Rules on Deadline for Seeking an AG's Opinion on Record Requests
• VIA Media Postcard: And That's The Way It Is
• VIA Media Postcard: In Whom Do We Trust?
• Now Serving...You! Is There A Subpoena Waiting for You on Your Computer?
• VIA Media Postcard: A SLAPP By Any Other Name Still Hurts

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Latest News

• Steve Fogle Receives Ethical Life Award from ACC — South/Central Texas Chapter
• Jackson Walker Congratulates Its Eighteen 'S.A. Scene' Lawyers: Best of 2012
• Steve Fogle Named "Volunteer of the Month" by the San Antonio Community Justice Program
• Steve Fogle Published in Subpoena Newsletter
• Steve Fogle Elected Board Chairman of Returning Heroes Home
• Steve Fogle Named to the Board of Directors for Returning Heroes Home, Inc.
• Steve Fogle Speaks on the Ethics of Switching from Mediator to Arbitrator
• Steve Fogle and Paul Watler Speak at Texas Association of Broadcasters Workshop
• Steve Fogle Speaks on Adventures in Insurance
• Steve Fogle Presents Paralegal CLE Session on Making Yourself Invaluable
• Steve Fogle Speaks on a Pending U.S. Supreme Court First Amendment Case

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