Frank is a seasoned litigator and counselor, specializing in media law, libel defense, and intellectual property and Internet law. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and his law degree from Harvard Law School, Frank has spent more than two decades developing his expertise. On a regular basis, Frank advises and represents clients of the firm in matters of First Amendment law, rights of privacy and publicity, copyrights and trademarks, pre-publication and pre-broadcast review, and other aspects of media and entertainment law, as well as commercial litigation, and regularly drafts and negotiates a wide range of agreements for clients in the media industry and beyond. He also regularly provides advice on a host of issues affecting clients in the digital industry.

From 2002-04, Frank was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the prestigious Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where he taught graduate classes in Media Law, as well as Communications Law for undergraduate students in the Television/Radio/Film, Public Relations/Advertising, and Journalism sequences. He is also a former on-air correspondent for Court TV and a former investigative reporter for two local television stations, and holds a Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.

Frank began his legal career in the mid-1980s at Webster & Sheffield, then one of New York's most prominent law firms. Since joining forces with Russell Smith, Frank has successfully handled a number of litigated matters, has provided content review and other legal advice to facilitate television programming for major television networks and magazine clients, and has negotiated numerous agreements on behalf of Internet-based enterprises, as well as employment contracts for television professionals, including broadcast journalists, among others.

Frank divides his time between SmithDehn’s Manhattan office and the firm’s satellite office in Rochester, New York.