Mr. Sloan joined Skadden in 2008. An experienced litigator, he has litigated cases at all levels of federal and state courts, including five U.S. Supreme Court arguments, numerous arguments in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and matters in trial and district courts across the country.

Mr. Sloan’s practice focuses on a wide range of litigation and appeals, including cases involving intellectual property, administrative law, commercial disputes, securities law, tax controversies and constitutional issues. He also regularly advises clients on copyright, trademark, new media and First Amendment matters.

His recent litigation experience includes:

• an en banc victory, in a case he argued, in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in an SEC case on the scope of Section 10b-5 liability (SEC v. Tambone); and

• a victory in a music copyright infringement lawsuit in which he was lead counsel for the Bon Jovi band, as well as more than a dozen media and entertainment defendants, in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. (Steele v. Turner Broadcasting).

Mr. Sloan has served in high-ranking positions in all three branches of the federal government, including experience as Associate Counsel to the President and Assistant to the Solicitor General. He also has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's Advisory Committee on Procedures.

Among his other activities, Mr. Sloan has been a leader in Internet litigation. The National Law Journal has described him as “an expert on cyberspace,” and The New York Times singled out his amicus curiae brief in a landmark Supreme Court Internet case as “very likely” having a significant impact on the Justices.

From 2000 to 2008, Mr. Sloan served as General Counsel of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, The Washington Post Company’s online subsidiary. He was active in the in-house bar, serving on the board of directors of the Association of Corporate Counsel and on the Advisory Board of Corporate Pro Bono. From 2005 to 2008, he also served as Publisher of Slate Magazine, which was acquired by The Washington Post Company in 2005. He has taught the law of cyberspace as an adjunct law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, George Washington University Law School, and American University’s Washington College of Law.

Mr. Sloan has received numerous awards, including being named one of Min Magazine’s “21 Most Intriguing People in Publishing” in 2007 and one of The National Law Journal’s “Forty Under Forty” top lawyers in 1995. He is the co-author of The Great Decision, a book about the historic Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison (Public Affairs, 2009), and comments regularly on Supreme Court developments.