Associate

Elizabeth Ernest

Associate

Elizabeth Ernest

813-984-3060

Elizabeth

As the daughter of a career journalist, I have so much respect for the challenging and often undervalued work our clients do. A free press is even more important now than ever, and I’m honored to be able to help support it.

About Elizabeth

Elizabeth is an associate in the Tampa office with a practice concentration in media and communications law, including defamation, First Amendment, and access to public records and open courts. She also focuses on business litigation and intellectual property matters, including the registration and litigation of trademarks.

Elizabeth graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2022. While in law school, Elizabeth worked as a legal intern for the North Carolina Poverty Research Fund and for the Office of Senator Jay Chaudhuri, and counseled clients of the Intellectual Property Clinic on trademark matters. She also worked as a summer associate at the firm.

 

While pursuing her law degree, Elizabeth authored a number of publications featured in the First Amendment Law Review and the UNC Festival of Legal Learning. She also served as the Editor-in-Chief of Volume 20 of the First Amendment Law Review.

 

Prior to attending law school, Elizabeth served in the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa, where she wrote and managed federal grant projects and facilitated technical trainings and development projects.

Elizabeth

As the daughter of a career journalist, I have so much respect for the challenging and often undervalued work our clients do. A free press is even more important now than ever, and I’m honored to be able to help support it.

JD, University of North Carolina, 2022

BA, Finance and Marketing, University of South Carolina, 2016

Florida

Middle District of Florida

Co-author, Survey of Eleventh Circuit Libel Law, Media Libel Law, Media Law Resource Center (2023 – present)

Co-author, Florida Open Courts Compendium, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (2023 – present).

Co-author, Florida Reporter’s Privilege Compendium, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (2023 – present).

Not Congress, but the Judiciary: How the Roberts Court’s Religion Clause Decisions are Creating an Establishment of Religion, 20 First Amend. L. Rev. 53 (2021).

First Amendment Implications of Curfews During Black Lives Matter Protests, blog post on FirstAmendmentLawReview.org, Apr. 14, 2021.

PFAS Policy and Regulation and the Connection to Environmental Justice in North Carolina, symposium paper for the 2019 UNC Environmental Law Symposium.

About Elizabeth

Elizabeth is an associate in the Tampa office with a practice concentration in media and communications law, including defamation, First Amendment, and access to public records and open courts. She also focuses on business litigation and intellectual property matters, including the registration and litigation of trademarks.

Elizabeth graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2022. While in law school, Elizabeth worked as a legal intern for the North Carolina Poverty Research Fund and for the Office of Senator Jay Chaudhuri, and counseled clients of the Intellectual Property Clinic on trademark matters. She also worked as a summer associate at the firm.

 

While pursuing her law degree, Elizabeth authored a number of publications featured in the First Amendment Law Review and the UNC Festival of Legal Learning. She also served as the Editor-in-Chief of Volume 20 of the First Amendment Law Review.

 

Prior to attending law school, Elizabeth served in the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa, where she wrote and managed federal grant projects and facilitated technical trainings and development projects.

Education

JD, University of North Carolina, 2022

BA, Finance and Marketing, University of South Carolina, 2016

Representative Matters

Bar Admissions

  • Florida
  • Middle District of Florida

Appearances and Publications

Co-author, Survey of Eleventh Circuit Libel Law, Media Libel Law, Media Law Resource Center (2023 – present)

Co-author, Florida Open Courts Compendium, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (2023 – present).

Co-author, Florida Reporter’s Privilege Compendium, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (2023 – present).

Not Congress, but the Judiciary: How the Roberts Court’s Religion Clause Decisions are Creating an Establishment of Religion, 20 First Amend. L. Rev. 53 (2021).

First Amendment Implications of Curfews During Black Lives Matter Protests, blog post on FirstAmendmentLawReview.org, Apr. 14, 2021.

PFAS Policy and Regulation and the Connection to Environmental Justice in North Carolina, symposium paper for the 2019 UNC Environmental Law Symposium.