Eric Schroeder is a collaborative leader and nationally recognized First Amendment expert who advises some of the world’s leading media companies, digital platforms, and sports organizations on content, branding, and consumer communication matters. He brings a strategic, solutions-oriented approach to complex legal challenges at the intersection of speech, media, and technology.

A proud member of BCLP Atlanta since his summer associate days in 1995, Eric is the immediate past Managing Partner of the firm’s Atlanta office and currently serves on the BCLP Global Board. Before joining the firm in 1997, he clerked for the Honorable William C. O'Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Eric leads a national media and communications team focused on both traditional First Amendment and intellectual property issues—such as defamation, false advertising, misappropriation, and trademark infringement—as well as modern commercial litigation involving consumer terms of service, TCPA compliance, and right of publicity. His team has successfully defended scores of high-stakes cases involving the First Amendment, the Lanham Act, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, state mini-Lanham Act and unfair competition claims, and emerging speech-related state laws, including some of the first defamation claims involving artificial intelligence.

On the sports side of his practice, Eric represents several teams, universities and media/gaming entities on media-related issues, and out of that he founded and leads the Atlanta Sports General Counsel Roundtable, a quarterly networking program for in-house counsel across the region’s sports ecosystem. The group brings together over 30 Atlanta-area legal leaders from professional and collegiate teams, sports media, and gaming organizations, and has become a high-impact forum for collaboration and insight-sharing, a valuable touch point for the Atlanta sports community, and a testament to Eric’s deep connections and long love of sports law.

Eric is a past President of the Atlanta Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and has served on its Executive Committee for several years. He is also a long-standing member of the Governing Committee of the ABA’s Forum on Communications Law. In the broader Atlanta community, Eric has served as Board President for both True Colors Theatre Company and The Frazer Center and currently serves on the Duke Atlanta Alumni Board.

Outside the office, Eric and his wife Heather stay busy with their four children—Wyatt, Everett, Cary, and Will—and two labradors, Charlie and Copper. He’s a fan of Southern literature, medieval history, English mysteries, and Duke athletics—and a long-suffering, ever-hopeful supporter of the New York J-E-T-S.