With the emergence of the Trump era, the call of “fake news” and the rhetoric that accompanies it have slammed the reliability of mainstream media and bred distrust among the general public.

Defamation cases against media outlets often have the same effect; perhaps no attorney knows this better than Ballard Spahr’s David Axelrod, a trial lawyer, former federal prosecutor, and finalist for The Legal Intelligencer’s 2023 Attorney of the Year award.