Jackson Walker L.L.P. :: Daniel Scardino
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Practice Areas
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Biography
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Daniel Scardino represents technology, interactive media, and entertainment industry clients in a variety of intellectual property and corporate matters, including publishing, development, licensing, copyright, trademark, securities, mergers, acquisitions, and corporate governance. Mr. Scardino has assisted in the development, production, and distribution of interactive, music, film, and television projects. He has counseled clients in corporate and partnership structuring and assisted with and negotiated asset and equity deals ranging in value from a few million to over a billion dollars. Mr. Scardino also has extensive experience with the premerger notification requirements of the Hart Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act. He also has considerable litigation experience in a variety of complex and industry specific litigation matters, including patent litigation, trademark and copyright disputes, and securities fraud and shareholder oppression.
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Memberships
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Mr. Scardino serves on the Advisory Board of the Austin Music Foundation and is a former member of the Board of Directors of Public Access Community Television (PACT), the nonprofit that manages the City of Austin public access resources.
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Awards
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Mr. Scardino was named a "Texas Super Lawyer - Rising Star" in Entertainment Law by Texas Monthly magazine in 2006-2008.
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Admitted
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- Texas, 2001
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
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Education
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B.A., Emory University
J.D., Tulane University School of Law
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Publications & Speaking Engagements
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Mr. Scardino's published articles include "Extra! Extra! Vanessa Leggett Serves Maximum Jail Time, First Amendment-Based Reporter's Privilege Under Siege" in Communications Lawyer, Volume 19, Number 4, Winter 2002 cited in New York Times v. Gonzales , 04 Civ. 7677, n.16 (RWS) (S.D.N.Y. January 25, 2005); "Derivative Works, Compilations, and Joint Works" in E-Copyright Law Handbook (Aspen 2002); "Liberty and Defamation" in Communications Lawyer, Volume 20, Number 3, Fall 2002; "The Reporter's Privilege in Texas" published by the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press; "Recent Developments in Media Law and Defamation Torts" in Torts, Trial and Insurance Practice Section Survey of the American Bar Association, Winter 2003; "SLAPP-Happy: Media Defendants Beware, Anti-SLAPP Statutes Might Not Be Something To Smile About" in Media, Privacy and Defamation Law Committee Newsletter, Fall 2004; "Talking To The Press and Making Them Listen" in Litigation, Volume 31, Number 2, Winter 2005; and "The Secret Double Life of the Reporter's Privilege" in Media, Privacy and Defamation Law Committee Newsletter, Spring 2005.
Mr. Scardino lectures frequently. He was a key note speaker at Open Government 2002 - A Symposium on Access to Public Information and Open Meetings in Texas; a guest lecturer to the entertainment law class at The University of Texas School of Law; a panelist at the 2005 Texas AP Broadcasters Convention discussing the reporter's privilege in Texas; and he has lectured to several film and music industry groups in Austin.
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