Libby Locke

Locke and her husband Tom Clare run the law firm Clare Locke LLP.^[2] They founded Clare Locke in 2014 after leaving Kirkland & Ellis LLP and each owns half of the company.^[3] Clare Locke specializes in reputation-based cases, especially defamation.^[4]

In 2016 Locke represented a University of Virginia administrator against Rolling Stone magazine in a case resulting from the article "A Rape on Campus",^[5] yielding a $3 million jury verdict.^[6]

In 2016 Locke represented Graham Spanier in a lawsuit against Louis Freeh which resulted from an investigation Freeh had conducted into the Jerry Sandusky scandal.^[7]

In 2019 she represented Sarah Palin in a lawsuit against The New York Times.^[8]

In 2019 she defended Matt Lauer against sexual assault allegations.^[1]

In 2020 Locke represented Away in a case against The Verge.^[9][10]

In 2021 she represented Project Veritas in a defamation lawsuit against Stanford University.^[11] She also represented Project Veritas against The New York Times.^[12][13][14]

In 2021 Locke represented ShotSpotter in a defamation lawsuit against Vice Media.^[15]

In 2023, the firm was one of two to negotiate a settlement with Fox News on behalf of their client, Dominion Voting Systems in the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion in 2021.^[6]

Her father was a businessman and air national guardsman, her mother was a pediatric emergency room nurse and later dog breeder. She has one child with Clare and two from a previous marriage.^[3] Locke identifies politically as an American conservative.^[3]