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The 2004 National Law Review’s runner-up for Lawyer of the Year, Fisher is a First Amendment and criminal-defense specialist at the Seattle-based law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine (DWT). He recently became partner after just five years there.
His case, Crawford vs. Washington, involved a criminal trial in which a videotape was used as evidence against the defendant, Crawford. But because Crawford’s lawyer was not able to cross-examine the videotaped witness, they took the case to the Washington State Supreme Court. There they argued...
With his Supreme Court cases now closed, Fisher has been working with DWT on a federal appeals case pertaining to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 and on some other First Amendment work focusing on the journalistic privilege to keep sources confidential.
“Conant really didn’t think that somebody who took the Fifth Amendment deserved to be kept on, and said so,” Morton Keller, co-author of “Making Harvard Modern,” told The Crimson in 2004. ?...
The Xeric Foundation, along with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, stands as one of comicdom's twin benevolences. Where the CBLDF protects the first amendment rights of people associated with the industry, the Xeric foundation fosters new growth through its grants given out to first-time self-publishing comic...