Stephen Stich Match

Stephen Stich Match is an attorney at Loevy + Loevy and a member of its Media and Transparency and Intellectual Property practices. He joined the firm in 2023.

Media and Transparency: Stephen has successfully represented clients on a wide range of media law matters, including cases under the Freedom of Information Act, state public record laws, the First Amendment, and defamation. Stephen has litigated cases that have set key appellate precedent clarifying the broad scope of FOIA’s foreseeable harm requirement, forced the federal government to acknowledge its investigation of white supremacists despite supposed national security concerns, enjoined an executive order forbidding law professors from communicating with the International Criminal Court, exposed materials related to alleged war crimes, and more.  Stephen regularly advises clients on media and transparency issues and participates in conference panels on government accountability.

Intellectual Property. Stephen represents news publishers in Copyright Act and Digital Millennium Copyright Act cases against creators of large language models.  He has litigated the first DMCA case to proceed past the dismissal stage based on allegations that OpenAI unlawfully removed copyright management information from content used to train ChatGPT.

Stephen holds a JD from Yale Law School.  There he was a member of the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic, where, as a second-year student, he received the Francis Wayland Prize for greatest proficiency in preparing and presenting a case in litigation.  He later taught as a Clinical Lecturer at that same clinic for two years before joining Loevy + Loevy.  In between, he worked as a law clerk for Justice Peter Rubin of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and an associate at an international law firm.  Stephen is a former political philosopher who has written several articles appearing in peer-reviewed journals, including American Political Science Review, Journal of Philosophy, and Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.

Bar Admissions:

• California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York
• Court of Appeals for the D.C., Second, and Tenth Circuits
• District Courts for the Central District of California, Northern District of California, District of D.C., Northern District of Illinois, Southern District of New York, and Eastern District of Wisconsin