General counsel Eric Lieberman heads a team of three lawyers; the subsidiary that ran the Post‘s website employed two lawyers, but when site management was merged with the print division in January 2010 the overall attorney head count was cut by one position. In a new hire, Lieberman looks for candidates who can excel at identifying the legal and reputational risks to the company. “In addition to spotting issues, a Post lawyer has to be able to provide clear, sensible and practical advice to commercial departments and to the newsroom, frequently on deadline,” he said.
Lieberman counts on outside counsel for most litigation. He listed Kevin Baine at Williams & Connolly as the paper’s main outside media lawyer. In addition, Willis Goldsmith, Trish Dunn and Jackie Holmes at Jones Day help Jay Kennedy, vice president for labor, with union negotiations and employment litigation.
