Kevin Baine devotes a substantial portion of his practice to First Amendment and media litigation. He has successfully defended more than 100 libel cases and has litigated a variety of cases raising issues of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion. In his 25 years at the firm, he has also handled a broad range of civil litigation at the trial and appellate levels - including copyright, trademark, employment discrimination, education, tort, contract, and general commercial cases.

Mr. Baine has been lead counsel in litigation for many of the country's major media organizations. He has recently been engaged in, among other things, defending a series of multi-district libel suits arising out of news reports concerning "Operation Tailwind" in Laos in 1970, pursuing copyright infringement claims on behalf of major record labels against Napster, defending claims that movie depictions of violence caused the school shootings in Paducah, Kentucky and Columbine, Colorado, defending a television news organization's use of hidden cameras in a report on racial profiling by the police, and representing the owner of the Salt Lake City Tribune in a dispute over the management and future ownership of the newspaper.

Mr. Baine has represented major universities in cases involving academic tenure and student discipline, and religious organizations in cases involving church governance and discipline. For 20 years he defended a series of Establishment Clause challenges to the provision of Title I remedial instruction to children in church-related schools throughout the country. That work culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Agostini v. Felton, 521 U.S. 203 (1997), upholding the provision of Title I services on the premises of church-related schools and overruling (for the first time in the Court's history) a prior decision in the same case (Aguilar v. Felton, 473 U.S. 400 (1985)).

Mr. Baine has argued several cases in the Supreme Court and has filed amicus curiae briefs in the Supreme Court in a number of First Amendment cases. He has appeared in state and federal courts throughout the country at the trial and appellate level.

Mr. Baine has served as Co-Chair of the First Amendment and Media Litigation Committee and Co-Chair of the Resource Development Committee of the ABA's Section of Litigation. He has also served as a member of the Board of Governors of St. Albans School and Chairman of the Board of Beauvoir School.