Jon L. Fleischaker has represented numerous outlets for over three decades, including The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times Company, The New York Times Company, Gannett Co., Inc., The Hearst Corporation, The Kentucky Press Association, The Associated Press, assorted broadcasting outlets and public relations companies. He has been actively involved in creating legislation protecting the press in Kentucky, including authoring the Open Meetings and Open Records Acts as well as the Retraction Statute. He has actively litigated most major media issues in Kentucky, including defamation issues, invasion of privacy cases, access to information and source protection. Fleischaker is the only Kentucky lawyer listed in The Best Lawyers in America, listed for media law. He graduated with a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum lade (1970), Editor of The Law Review and received his B.A. from Swarthmore College (1967).