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Douglas R. Pierce was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He is admitted to the bar in Tennessee and before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court of the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third, Sixth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits. Mr. Pierce received his undergraduate education at Morehead State University and his law degree from the University of Tennessee, where he graduated with honors and was assistant editor and associate editor of the Tennessee Law Review. Mr. Pierce was a law clerk to the Honorable Robert L. Taylor, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee. He is general counsel to the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters and to the Nashville Advertising Federation. Mr. Pierce authored Updating Tennessee's Public Records Law,? Tennessee Bar Journal, Vol. 24, No. 5. He has authored Open Courts in Tennessee: A Reporter's Handbook and Limitations on Newsgathering: A Journalist's Guide. Mr. Pierce is a member of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations, and is a member of the Litigation Section and Communications Committee of the American Bar Association. He is also a member of the Defense Research Institute. His practice is in the areas of Litigation, Media Law, and First Amendment.