Kenneth M. Vittor was appointed executive vice president and general counsel of The McGraw-Hill Companies in 1999. Previously, Ken was senior vice president and associate general counsel of The McGraw-Hill Companies until he was appointed senior vice president and general counsel in July 1995. As general counsel, Ken was responsible for handling the widely publicized BusinessWeek-Bankers Trust prior restraint litigation as well as the highly successful defense of Standard & Poor's in the Orange County litigation.
Before joining The McGraw-Hill Companies in 1981, Ken was with the New York City law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel, where he specialized in litigation and First Amendment law. He graduated with honors from Cornell University in 1971 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1974.
Ken is a past chairman and current member of the Lawyers' Committee of the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA). Ken is also a member of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Lawyers' Committee and a past member of the AAP's Freedom to Read Committee. Ken is currently a member, and a prior Chairman, of The Libel Defense Resource Center. Ken is on the Board of Directors of Hartley House and the Board of Advisors of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He has written articles on a variety of legal issues in the publishing and First Amendment areas. |