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Law Firms - Defamation Law
Ron Lowenthal & Co. Law Offices
R on Lowenthal & Co. Law Offices and
Notary was founded in 2005 by Ron Lo-
wenthal. A former media professional
and elected representative, he serves as Deputy
Chairman of the Israel Bar Tel Aviv District and
head of the Bar’s Defamation Committee. The
firm specializes in defamation, copyrights, la-
bor, family and municipal law.
Adv. Lowenthal’s background in the media and
municipal affairs allows the firm to provide a
firm base for suits in the media, media regula-
tion, libel and defamation, copyright, labor and
family law as well as municipal proceedings from
permits and proceedings in the local affairs court
and administrative and High Court petitions. The
firm has 6 lawyers and is ranked among D&B
2016’s “Outstanding Firms” regarding defama-
tion. The firm’s clients include media and com-
munications companies, national newspapers,
local newspapers, journalists, photographers,
artists and entertainers, modeling agencies,
public representatives, city councilors, public
workers, developers, employers with dozens of
workers and private employees, as well as busi-
ness owners requiring permits and licensing.
Creativity and legal-Technological Expertise
Creativity is required to provide solutions for
situations that are not purely legal, but stem
from rapid technological progress including
frenzied business competition and viral ads cre-
ating difficulties. The firm’s well-known creative
solutions and synergy between law and technol-
ogy, providing responses for interdisciplinary
needs, are the added value from which clients
benefit. Moreover, with the media advancing
more swiftly than the law, the firm’s in-depth
familiarity with the media helps translate legal
results into the language of the media.
The other side of the challenge is expressed in
the ability to professionally introduce the law
with new media. The firm provides a compre-
hensive raft of legal services designed to pro-
tect an individual’s name and honor of in libel
and defamation cases, civil suits and criminal
complaints, as well as libel suits combining em-
ployee rights or matrimonial law.
The approach of protecting one’s good name in-
cludes the prohibition of discrimination in clubs
and public places, equal opportunities at work,
suits against racism and erasing a criminal re-
cord that weighs on a person’s past yet harms
his name at the present.
The firm also works in all areas of protecting
privacy and orders against threatening harass-
ment. The firm has a labor law department to-
gether with defamation suits and separately,
social rights suits. In the personal and family
law field also combined defamation suits and
family suits separately.
Due to its founder’s background in the media,
the firm also specializes in copyrights protec-
tion and violation suits for both broadcasting
organizations and artists including arbitration
suits with ACUM, the Trademarks and Samples
Registrar, as well as suits and litigation for viola-
tion of IP rights.
The Firm’s Team
Adv. Ron Lowenthal Head of the Firm, Owner
& Founder - Has served as head of the Israel
Bar’s Defamation Committee for some years and
wrote the book “Land of Defamation, Milk and
Honey” which surveys defamation cases since
the founding of Israel, and lectures on defama-
tion for the Israel Bar and many others. B.A. Law
and Governing, IDC, Herzliya. As a member of
the management committee of Eshnav promot-
ing public awareness on the positive and nega-
tive impact of the Internet, he lectures on cyber
bullying, shaming, incitement, phishing and
Internet news.
He also serves as a director of the Israel Bar’s
Economic Co. and chairman of its Books and
Media Committee. He is Deputy Chairman of
the Israel Bar Tel Aviv District and an authorized
Notary. He has served as Deputy Chairman of
the Israel Bar Civil Law Agenda Committee. Be-
tween 2003-2008 he served as a member of the
Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council and the Planning and
Building Committee, Rates Discounts Commit-
tee, City Properties Committee and Chairman of
the Auditing Affairs Committee. He gained great
knowledge and expertise in municipal affairs,
building permits, business licensing and rates.
Prior to that he was engaged in prominent media
activities including as a presenter on Educa-
tional TV, Channel 1, Channel 2, Army Radio (IDF
service), Radio 103, editor at Yediot Tikshoret
network and deputy editor of “Yediot Hasharon”
and editorial roles with the “Pnai Plus” (enter-
tainment weekly) and “Rosh Echad” (youngsters
magazine). He wrote the program schedule for
Radio 99’s winning tender bid and was its first
program manager.
Adv. Shai Erez – With 20 years of legal experi-
ence, specializing in labor law, civil litigation
and legal services assisting companies and
individuals coping with authorities.
Adv. Marina Haran – LL.B. St. Petersburg Uni-
versity, Russia, specializes in commercial law,
income-producing real estate and public com-
panies as well as labor law and defamation. She
serves as the legal department’s lawyer for the
Arena Star Group public company and is respon-
sible for external legal consultancy for Russia
and Kazakhstan.
Adv. Shlomi Haimov – LL.B. Academic Center for
Law and Business Ramat Gan and has a back-
ground in radio and media studies. Adv. Haimov
is also involved in public activities as a public
representative as part of his studies. He has
developed expertise in defamation and libel and
protection of privacy, litigation, suits against dis-
crimination in clubs and public places, founding
commercial companies and knowhow on debt
collection and bankrupticies.
Esta b l i s h e d
2005
L i n e o f B u s i n ess
Defamation, copyright, labor and
municipal law
A ss o c i at es
Shai Erez
Marina Haran
Shlomi Haimov
Entrance A, 1st Floor, 155 Yigal Allon St.,
Tel-Aviv 6744363
Tel: 972-3-5243344
Fax: 972-3-5243355
Ron Lowenthal
Head of the Firm, Owner &
Founder *
* See Top Executives Profiles - Page 582