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awyer Herschel Fink
has built his career as
a crusader for the First
Amendment. His client list is a
virtual Who’
s Who: Rapper Dr.
Dre, filmmaker Michael Moore,
author Stephen King, Jay Leno
and the Temptations, in addition
to longtime clients the Detroit
Free Press and Fox 2 Detroit.
Throughout his career, Fink has
specialized in representing news-
papers, TV stations, networks,
motion picture studios and
media personalities in a broad
range of First Amendment, intel-
lectual property and entertain-
ment issues.
Fink was recently honored by
the State Bar of Michigan with
its John Hensel Award, presented
annually to a member who has
significantly enhanced arts, com-
munications, entertainment or
sports. The Hensel Award joins
numerous other awards Fink has
received, including a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the
Society of Professional Journalists
Detroit Chapter in 2005 and the
SPJ national First Amendment
Award in 2010.
“I sometimes think that
Herschel has on him some place
tattooed the full text of the First
Amendment as that is what he’
s
most devoted to,” said senior U.S.
District Judge Avern Cohn in a
video tribute at the November
event.
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