Damon E. Dunn Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn Ltd. 55 West Monroe Street Suite 2300 Chicago, Illinois 60603 TEL: 312.701.6825 FAX: 312.701.6801

Damon advises clients in a variety of areas, including: internal corporate investigations, media law, commercial litigation and class action defense. With other FVLD attorneys, he has litigated numerous securities, First Amendment, antitrust, fiduciary and land use cases, many of which resulted in published opinions, including Marks v. CDW Computer Centers, (7th Cir. 1997); Underwager v. Channel 9 Australia, (9th Cir. 1995); Seith v Neal, et al., (Ill. App. 2007); Baker v. America's Mortgage Servicing and Resolution Trust Corp., (7th Cir. 1995); Chicago Tribune Company, et al. v. City of Chicago, (N.D. Ill. 1989); Hirschauer v. The Chicago Sun-Times, (Ill. App. 1989); Ward v. Succession of Richard W. Freeman, (5th Cir. 1988). In the intellectual property field, Damon was among the first attorneys to obtain injunctive relief in a "website diversion" case and he argued the widely reported copyright preemption case, Chicago Style Productions v Chicago Sun Times (Ill. App. 2000). Labor and employment cases that Damon has argued include Hoffmann v. Primedia Special Interests Publications (7th Cir. 2000), Sheehan v. Daily Racing Form (7th Cir. 1996), and Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 v. Daily Racing Form (N.D. Ill., 1999).

Damon has successfully argued numerous groundbreaking appeals, several of which have attracted the attention of legal commentators. See: Imperial Design v, Cosmo's Designer Direct et al. (Illinois Supreme Court 2008) (Chicago Law Bulletin February 7, 2008, "Ad not tailored to Court's taste");Knafel v. Chicago Sun-Times, Inc., (7th Cir. 2005) (Chicago Law Bulletin, June 29 and August 8, 2005); Brennan v. Kadner, (Ill. App. 2004) (Chicago Law Bulletin, Aug. 11, 2004, "Writer Statement Not Verifiable Fact: Court"); Williams Electronics Games, Inc. v. Garrity, et al. (7th Cir. 2004) (Chicago Law Bulletin, June 8, 2004 "Verdict against Game Maker Reversed" and June 9, 2004 "Restitution Represents Important Alternative"); Salamone v. Hollinger, Int'l. Inc., (Ill. App. 2004) (Chicago Law Bulletin, April 22, 2004 "Newspaper finds Safe Harbor"); Intl. Financial Services Corp. v. Chromas Technologies Canada, Inc., (7th Cir. 2004) (IICLE Civil Litigation Flashpoints "Veil piercing is an equitable remedy to be decided by a court, not a jury"); Harrison v. Chicago Sun Times, Inc. (Ill. App. 2003) (Editor & Publisher and MLRC Media law Letter, August 2003 "Use of 'kidnapped' substantially true").

Damon graduated with Honors from the College of Wooster. Before entering law school, he worked in New York City as a television news assignment editor and as the Coordinator of Exhibitions for the American Institute of Graphic Arts. While there, a play he authored was produced Off-Off Broadway.

Damon relocated to Chicago and received his law degree with High Honors from IIT -- Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1981, where he was Chief Justice of the Moot Court Honor Society, an Assistant Legal Writing Instructor and admitted into the Bar and Gavel Society. Damon also was selected for Kent's National Moot Court Competition team, which wrote the best appellate brief in the nation and placed third in the National Finals, winning the New York Bar Association Evans Hughes Trophy and the American College of Trial Lawyers Medal for Excellence in Advocacy. That brief is published in 56 Chicago Kent Law Review 911 (1980).

Damon is a frequent contributing author for the Media Law Research Center and authored the Chapter on "Strikes" in The Labor Law Handbook (Ill. Inst. For CLE). He has served on panels addressing First Amendment issues for The Chicago Headline Club, Loyola University and University of Illinois. He enjoys flyfishing and riding horses with his wife and son in wilderness areas "out West."

Damon has been admitted to the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, Illinois Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Ninth Circuits. He is a member of the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the bar of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. He has an "AV" peer review rating.