Frank D. LoMonte is an adjunct instructor at the University of Georgia School of Law and serves as legal counsel at the Cable News Network, where he advises and trains the global media company’s journalists on a variety of legal compliance issues, emerging legal risk areas and best legal practices for their careers. He also reviews sensitive material prior to publication.

LoMonte previously worked as a professor at the University of Florida where he directed the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information for approximately five years. He also taught graduate and undergraduate media law courses while at Florida. His other teaching experience has been at the University of Georgia, where he served as the Brumby Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Law and a lecturer at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

From 2008 to 2017, he was the executive director of the Student Press Law Center in Washington, D.C, and worked with college and high school students and educators. After graduating from law school, he served as a judicial clerk for Judge C. Christopher Hagy of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and Judge R. Lanier Anderson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, and as an attorney at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan in Atlanta.

LoMonte earned his law degree magna cum laude from UGA, where he served as senior articles editor of the Georgia Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Georgia State University in 1994.