Jon Hart (General Counsel)

General Counsel
Dow Lohnes PLLC

Jon, a founding member of ONA, is a member of the law firm of Dow Lohnes PLLC, where he practices in the firm’s Media and Information Technologies group out of Washington, D.C. Jon specializes in the representation of media and technology companies on a broad range of commercial, transactional, operational and content matters. He has been representing businesses that gather and distribute news and information, sell advertising, market goods and services, and build community on the Internet for as long as there has been a commercial Internet. Jon has been on the faculty of the Stanford Professional Publishing Courses since 1994, is a contributor to the “International Libel & Privacy Handbook” (Bloomberg 2006), and is author of “Internet Law: A Field Guide” (BNA Books, 6th Edition, 2008). Before entering private practice, Jon clerked for U.S. Circuit Judge Jerome Farris and U.S. District Judge Almeric Christian. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford Law School.