Edward Fenno


Edward Fenno is the founder and Managing Member of Fenno Law Firm, LLC. His practice focuses on media, Internet, intellectual property, technology and entertainment law – including litigation and transactional matters involving defamation, privacy, newsgathering, copyright, trademark, computer software, website and music legal issues. In addition, Mr. Fenno is experienced in litigating  business, construction and Constitutional law matters. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Southern California School of Law. He is also a former journalist and professional tennis player, and is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in American Law.

Prior to forming the Fenno Law Firm in 2006, Mr. Fenno practiced at Moore & Van Allen in Charleston for six years and in Los Angeles for five years at the law firms of Musick, Peeler & Garrett and Bostwick & Hoffman. Mr. Fenno is the co-author of "Protection Under CDA § 230 and Responsibility for 'Development' of Third-Party Content," 28 Communications Lawyer 2 (August, 2011) and author of "Public Figure Libel: The Premium on Ignorance and the Race to the Bottom," 4 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 253 (1995). He also authored "Federal Internet Privacy Law," 12 South Carolina Lawyer 36 (January/February, 2001) and "Freelancers Win Electronic Republication Appeal," South Carolina Press Association Bulletin (July 17, 2001); and has authored columns in Carolina Arts  newspaper on the subject of copyright and related legal issues for visual artists.

Mr. Fenno has lectured on Internet law numerous times, including to the South Carolina Press Association, South Carolina Broadcasters Association and Charleston Lawyers Club. He has also lectured on e-commerce law and on analyzing financial statements.

Mr. Fenno is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce's ThinkTEC technology initiative, for whom he has served as co-Vice Chairman of its Steering Committee and has chaired the Technology Innovation Summit. He is also a member or associate member of the American Bar Association’s Forum on Communications Law, the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Law, the South Carolina Broadcasters Association, the South Carolina Press Association, and the Media Law Resource Center’s Defense Counsel Section. Mr. Fenno is a graduate of Leadership Charleston.
Edward Fenno