Richard J. Ovelmen
Partner

Miami

Email: rjo@jordenusa.com
Phone: 305.347.6805
Fax: 305.372.9928

Richard J. Ovelmen is a Partner in the Miami office of Jorden Burt LLP. He has practiced constitutional, land-use, local government, media, class action, and intellectual property law, including particularly First Amendment, defamation, trademark and copyright litigation, litigation regarding access to government held information, privacy, as well as antitrust and trade secret claims, for more than thirty years. His practice also includes appellate work in all courts, complex commercial litigation, Bert J. Harris Act Claims, litigation concerning Developments of Regional Impact, local referenda and initiatives, and international litigation. Mr. Ovelmen is chair of the firm's Appellate practice team.

Speeches and Publications

• Speaker: "Two Models of Internet Liability Rules: the Takedown Approach and the Limited Immunity Regime," 9th International Litigation and Arbitration Conference of the International Law Section of the Florida Bar, February 4, 2011
• Speaker: Fourth Annual Conference on Litigating Regulatory Takings Claims
• Speaker: Georgetown University Law Center at a conference, Fall of 2002, which explored takings and related constitutional challenges to land use, environmental and other regulatory programs; presentation focused on Florida's recently enacted Bert J. Harris Private Property Protection Act
• Principal Author: Annual survey article on the right of access to government information published by PLI in its Communications Law Handbook (thirty years)
• Co-Authored: the PLI article on Newsrack Litigation (three years)
• Speaker and Panelist: PLI (twenty-two years)
• Author: Chapter on "Judicial Review of Agency Decisions with Respect to FOI Requests" for the FOIA Monograph produced by the ABA Central and East European Law Initiative
• Speaker: Litigation section of the ABA, at the annual conventions in London and Atlanta, lecturing on American and English libel suits and psycho-linguistic studies of jury instructions in libel suits
• Speaker: Panels for the ABA Forum Committee on Communications Law, addressing the issues of "chill" on freedom of expression caused by libel suits and press responses to retraction demands and other complaints
• Speaker, Panelist and Moderator: Florida Bar's annual Media Law Conference for more than fifteen years. He has spoken about press/bar cross-perceptions, access to legal proceedings, press coverage of celebrated cases, subpoenas on reporters, public records and libel; written articles on access, subpoenas, and privacy for the Bar's annual publication, The Reporter's Handbook, and has been a featured speaker on software franchise litigation to the patent bar of the Southern District of Florida
• Originator, former Moderator and now Panelist: Seminar on the First Amendment decisions of the United States Supreme Court handed down in the current Term, presented each year at the Florida Bar's annual convention for twenty-five years
• Lecturer: On access rights and privacy at the Florida Press Association's annual convention
• Principal Author: The annotated summary of Florida libel law published each year in L.D.R.C.'s 50 state libel law survey for more than twenty-five years. He is an L.D.R.C. lecturer on libel topics