Edward Copeland advises clients in a wide range of areas including employment, media, commercial, and constitutional law. He has over four decades of experience providing counsel to a diverse collection of clients, protecting their rights and interests, and representing them in litigation, often in matters presenting complicated financial and legal issues. His clients include individuals and companies and span a variety of industries, including media and technology, insurance, law firms, healthcare, food and restaurants, theater, the arts, social services, not-for-profit organizations, and entities based abroad in their activities in the United States.

Ed is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and Co-Chair of its Development Committee. Ed is active in the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Media Law Resource Center and the Professional Liability Underwriting Society. Earlier in his career, he served as the General Counsel of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Inc., where he supervised projects in environmental justice, disability rights and placement of pro bono cases with private law firms. He served as associate general counsel of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee which merged into the Center for Constitutional Rights. He was a founder of the Public Interest Law Foundation, Inc., an organization organized to encourage and subsidize careers in public interest law. Earlier in his career, Ed was associated with other firms of national reputation, including as a member of the boutique constitutional law firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard.

Ed has been listed in New York Metro Super Lawyers since 2013. Ed graduated from New York University School of Law, cum laude, where he was an Arthur Garfield Hays Fellow in Civil Liberties. He received his undergraduate degree from Clark University. He is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Courts of Appeal for the First, Second, Fourth and Ninth Circuits, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the State of New York.