James Goodale

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James Goodale is the former General Counsel and Vice Chairman of The New York Times. As of 2006, he has a half hour TV show The Digital Age on WNYE covering media and legal issues.

He writes columns of media law and press freedom for the New York Law Journal. As a leading First Amendment lawyer, he conducts a continuing education seminar on Communications Law.

He was with the Times during the Pentagon Papers case. Because, the Times' regular outside counsel, Lord, Day & Lord, disagreed with Mr. Goodale's advice that the Pentagon Papers could be published under the First Amendment, he led his own legal team directed the strategy which resulted winning the case for The New York Times in the United States Supreme Court.

He joined Debevoise & Plimpton after leaving the Times and established two practice groups, one for the representation of media companies, particularly new media companies such as cable television, the other for First Amendment and intellectual property litigation.

He teaches at Fordham and Yale Law Schools. He also helped conceived of the Columbia University TV seminars along with Fred Friendly. He helped George Plimpton turn The Paris Review into a foundation.

Mr. Goodale is married to the former Toni Krissel of New York City who is President of the New York City fund-raising firm, T.K. Goodale Associates. They are the parents of Tim (a founding partner of Fusion Capital Management, London), Ashley (NYC Office of Legal Counsel), and the foster parents of Clayton Akiwenzie, a Native-American (with Wells Fargo in San Francisco, where he supervises loans to low-income housing developers).