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Pryor Cashman LLP announced today that Robert J. deBrauwere and John J. Lynch have joined the firm as partners, effective June 1, 2009. deBrauwere and Lynch, who were formerly partners at Jacobs deBrauwere LLP, have become members of Pryor Cashman's Litigation and Digital Media Practice Groups.

Robert deBrauwere counsels clients on all aspects of intellectual property, digital media, online publishing, software, video gaming, mobile technology, traditional media, entertainment, print publishing, pre-publication/pre-broadcast counseling (including libel, privacy, copyright, trademark, rights acquisition and related matters) and licensing. He regularly lectures attorneys, law school students. insurance underwriters and claims personnel in the areas of digital media, defamation, publishing and trademark law.

deBrauwere is a member of the Internet Law Committee of the Media Law Resource Center, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Magazine Publishers of America, the International Trademark Association and the Dean’s Council, College of Arts and Sciences of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a cum laude graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he served as Senior Managing Editor of the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. To read deBrauwere’s full biography, please click here.

John Lynch represents clients in litigation and transactional matters involving media, intellectual property, information technology, entertainment and general business matters. He has litigated in a broad range of civil matters, with an emphasis on defending the media, entertainment entities and information technology developers against claims involving intellectual property infringement, defamation, invasion of privacy and failed technology systems. He also counsels clients in connection with licensing of intellectual property and information technology, software and technology systems development, joint ventures, content acquisition and exploitation, entertainment and employment agreements.

Lynch is active in several professional organizations, including the International Bar Association where he is an officer of the Section on Intellectual Property, E-Commerce and Technology and Media. He chairs the IBA’s subcommittee on User Generated Content. Lynch is a graduate of St. John’s University School of Law, where he was an Associate Editor of the St. John’s Law Review. He also served as the Principal Law Clerk to the Hon. Fritz W. Alexander of the New York Court of Appeals.