Paul Cambria, the general counsel for the Adult Freedom Foundation, was spotlighted by the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law and Practices in a special report.
The Journal describes the prominent First Amendment attorney as "the industry's leading litigator and appellate advocate."
The full story can be viewed here.
Here is an excerpt:
Paul Cambria has been called "probably the best obscenity lawyer in America" by Larry C. Flynt, the man behind the publishing empire that is Larry Flynt Publications, Inc., ("L.F.P.") and sexually explicit magazines such as Hustler and Barely Legal. Cambria represented him when a twenty-something Flynt first faced obscenity charges in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1970s and several years later when Flynt was struck down and left wheelchair bound by a sniper's bullets. Today, he serves as Flynt's general counsel.
By almost any objective measure, Flynt's description of Cambria is borne out. First, he wins cases. For instance, in October 2000, Cambria successfully argued before a jury of twelve women that two sexually explicit videotapes - Rock Hard and Anal Heat - depicting anal, oral and vaginal sex among women and between men and women were not obscene. As he later reveals in the interview, female jurors today often can be more free-speech friendly than macho males who feel the need to protect women from such adult content.
Second, Cambria currently represents and has represented some of the major players in the adult entertainment field for more than a quarter century. Back in 1976, he defended Al Goldstein, the now-aging publisher of Screw Magazine who has been described variously as the "Fred Flintstone of Flesh" and the "King of Porn," in an obscenity prosecution in Kansas.
Today, Cambria's clients include some of the leading companies in the adult video market, including Vivid Video - Flynt's L.F.P., Inc. recently acquired the contract for the video and DVD distribution arm of the Vivid Entertainment Group, including its warehousing, sales and shipping duties - and Wicked Pictures. He also is the west coast general counsel for the Adult Video News, the leading trade industry publication.
Despite his reputation in the adult entertainment industry and his defense of some other high-profile individuals, Cambria largely toils outside of the public limelight. The critically acclaimed movie The People vs. Larry Flynt overlooked Cambria and instead cast its spotlight on another of Flynt's top attorneys - Alan Isaacman, who successfully represented Flynt before the United States Supreme Court in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell. The Isaacman character in the movie, played by actor Ed Norton, was actually a composite of many different attorneys - Cambria included - who have represented Flynt over the years.
