ONA, Berkman Center partner to offer legal assistance

To help Online News Association members find free or reduced-fee legal help, the Online News Association is partnering with the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society on its new Online Media Legal Network (OMLN). Staffed by lawyers with extensive backgrounds in intellectual property and media law, OMLN provides independent journalists access to high-quality free or reduced-fee legal work, qualifying them for assistance, helping them identify their legal needs and matching them with participating attorneys.