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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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