Dave Giles is chief legal officer of The E.W. Scripps Company.
He oversees all of the company’s legal functions and focuses his practice on litigation, antitrust compliance and regulatory issues.
Before joining Scripps in 2004, Dave was a litigation attorney at Baker Hostetler in Denver and Washington, D.C. He began his professional career as a reporter, covering crime, business and community issues for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1986-89 and as a reporter on the States Desk at USA Today from 1983-84.
Dave holds a bachelor’s degree in Government from St. Lawrence University, a master’s degree in journalism from The University of Kansas and a juris doctor degree from the Washington & Lee University School of Law.
Dave is on the boards of the Scripps Howard Fund, the Cincinnati Off Road Alliance, the Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio, the William Allen White Foundation and the Washington & Lee Law School Council. He is a former chair of the American Bar Association’s Forum on Communications Law.