Westport attorney Stephen E. (Steve) Nevas has announced the opening of the Nevas Law Group, 237 Post Road West.
Steve Nevas: active in media law. Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com
He is the son of the late Bernard Nevas who, with the late Leo Nevas, founded Nevas & Nevas in Westport, where he practiced for many years. It lately has been known as Nevas, Capasse & Gerard LLC.
Nevas is co-chair of the Media and Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association and concentrates on libel, slander, personal privacy and access to public information.
He represents business, publishers, producers, artists, writers and musicians to register and defend their copyrights and trademarks. His practice includes civil litigation and appeals as well as land use, zoning and real estate, the food industry and estate administration.
Nevas is the former general counsel of National Public Radio. He served as First Amendment Counsel to the National Association of Broadcasters and was chief law correspondent at CNN, covering the U.S. Supreme Court.
At Yale Law School. he was executive director of the Law and Media Program and has taught at the University of Connecticut Law School and the Catholic University Law School in Washington, D.C.
He serves on the boards of CT-N, the Connecticut Public Affairs Network, and the Connecticut Council for Freedom of Information.
