During the 34th Annual Law & the Media Seminar, Jackson Walker partner Chip Babcock joined a panel discussing “The Limits of Provocative Speech.” Fellow panelists included Mizanur Rahman (Houston Chronicle, moderator), Holli V. Pryor-Baze (Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld), and media consultant and criminal appellate attorney Brian Rogers.

Held on February 1, 2020, at the South Texas College of Law Houston, the seminar’s theme was “Is Speech Still Free?” and featured attorneys, journalists, and scholars discussing the First Amendment and how the media and the legal system help define and protect the limits of free speech. The Houston Bar Association Law & the Media Committee and the Society of Professional Journalists co-sponsored the event. To learn more, visit the event page.

Meet Chip

Houston partner Charles L. Babcock is a nationally recognized trial and appellate attorney. Chip’s practice experience includes bet-the-company litigation, First Amendment litigation, commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation, government investigations, media litigation, and appellate litigation. In addition to receiving the Ronald D. Secrest Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award from the Texas Bar Foundation, Chip has been named a “25 Greatest Texas Lawyer of the Past Quarter Century” by Texas Lawyer and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.