Heather Dietrick
If I were her, I wouldn’t be unhappy being in her position. There’s nothing humdrum about what she’s doing now.
— Sandra S. Baron, past Executive Director of the Media Law Resource Center (MLRC), commenting on Heather Dietrick, president and general counsel of Gawker Media. Last week Gawker, represented by Ropes & Gray, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, in the wake of the nine-figure verdict obtained by Hulk Hogan against the company for posting part of his sex tape online.
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(You can read our earlier profile of Heather Dietrick here. Disclosure: Above the Law Redline, the ATL spinoff aimed at bringing law to a broader audience, uses Gawker’s Kinja platform.)
David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].