Areas of Practice Concentration

• First Amendment and Communications
• Intellectual property
• Administrative law
• Nonprofit corporations
• Employment law

Education

• University of Florida, Gainesville, B.S. in Journalism, 1989
• University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D. with honors, 1992

Bar Admissions

• Georgia, 1992
• North Carolina, 1994

Court Admissions

• All state and federal courts of North Carolina
• Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Northern District of Georgia

Professional Affiliations

• Wake County, North Carolina and American Bar Associations
• Constitutional Rights Section Council Treasurer

Whether fielding one of the 1000+ calls that flood the North Carolina Press Association's legal hotline each year or opposing the closing of a courtroom, Amanda Martin enjoys combining her undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Florida and her law degree from the University of North Carolina. Ms. Martin is General Counsel to the NC Press Association, a membership organization of approximately 200 North Carolina newspapers, and NC Press Services. Ms. Martin routinely counsels reporters and editors about resisting subpoenas, avoiding libel suits, or gaining access to closed government meetings and records. Ms. Martin has enhanced and applied her media law concentration as an adjunct instructor in Media Law at UNC School of Law and as an adjunct instructor in Mass Communication Law and Ethics at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communications. She is a frequent speaker and panelist at media law forums and workshops. In 2007, Ms. Martin, Mr. Stevens and UNC Professor Cathy Packer co-edited a new edition of the North Carolina Media Law Handbook. She regularly contributes articles to law reviews, media law newsletters and other publications.

Ms. Martin also handles trademark, copyright and other intellectual property matters and has begun to serve as defense counsel in employment discrimination cases as well.

Ms. Martin's professional activities have included serving as a director of the Wake County Bar Association and editor of its newsletter. She is a founding member of the Chief Justice's Media Forum, which promotes bench/bar/press relations in North Carolina, and serves as the vice chairman of the NC Bar Association's Constitutional Rights and Responsibility Section Council. She enjoys reading, cooking, travel and is an active member of St. Michael's Episcopal Church.

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