Precision advocacy for your voice, reputation, and future.
Your voice and reputation are your most valuable assets.
Protecting them requires strategy from the moment you consider publishing, through courtroom battles if threats emerge.
I handle the full spectrum of speech-related challenges: pre-publication review to minimize your legal risk, sophisticated negotiations when disputes arise, and aggressive litigation when your reputation or constitutional rights are on the line. This comprehensive approach means I understand how early decisions shape later outcomes, and how to position you for success at every stage.
In high-stakes battles involving free speech and defamation, you don’t need a massive team—you need the right advocate. With 16 years mastering these challenges, I deliver the sophisticated expertise and results of a large firm with the focused attention of a solo practitioner. Legal disputes over free speech are deeply personal, and your representation should be, too.
When what you’ve built is on the line, Baughman Law delivers unflinching advocacy to protect your right to speak, your good name, and your future.
Practice Areas
Exceptional Advocacy in High-Impact Matters
Pre-Publication Review
Before you publish, know your risks. Strategic pre-publication review helps journalists, authors, corporations, and individuals communicate boldly while minimizing the threat of defamation litigation.
Post-Publication Advocacy
After falsehoods damage your reputation, swift and decisive action can secure corrections, retractions and apologies without litigation. Strategic negotiation often achieves better results faster than filing a lawsuit.
Defamation Litigation
When your or your company’s reputation is under attack, litigation isn't just about winning; it's about restoring what you've built and protecting your future.
First Amendment Litigation
Defending free speech and expression isn't just legal work—it's protecting the foundation of American democracy. I bring 16 years of First Amendment experience to every case.
Civil Liberties Litigation
When powerful institutions deny you fair process, fundamental rights hang in the balance. You deserve an advocate who fights to hold them accountable and restore constitutional protections.
Fantastic litigation attorney. Our company, as well as many other defendants, was involved in a 4+ year class action lawsuit. Krista and her team did an excellent job of defending our position and managing us through the never ending process, while… Keep Reading »
After several residents of San Clemente were removed from the Council meeting, denied the right to speak during meetings, denied the right to address individual council members, and were subject to interruption and were denied access to city documents, we… Keep Reading »
Excellence in every aspect of her job. Krista is that very rare gem of an attorney who exceeds one’s expectations at each and every facet of her profession. I came to her with an important First Amendment case involving a… Keep Reading »
I couldn’t have asked for a better attorney to fight by my side. Krista is thorough, detailed oriented and super considerate. She didn’t just provide impeccable legal service, but also a sense of companionship. She understood what I was going… Keep Reading »
THE BEST! Exceptional Advocacy with Unmatched Clarity and Communication. Krista Baughman represented me from 2024-2025, during one of the most difficult and professionally destabilizing periods of my career, involving defamation from a co-worker and from the company itself. From the… Keep Reading »
Cases
Representation with Lasting Impact
“Rare” Apology From Meta C-Suite Executive for AI Defamation
Obtained a full, public apology from Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer within days of filing a cutting-edge AI defamation lawsuit seeking to hold Meta Platforms, Inc. accountable for publications of...
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Precedent-Setting Due Process Win and Million-Dollar Jury Verdict
As lead counsel in a 6-week jury trial against a private high school for its arbitrary expulsion and defamation of minor students, obtained a million-dollar verdict cleaning the students’ names...
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