I'll be winging my way to Houston, but otherwise I would be at the New York County Lawyers' Association's 5th Annual Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Institute event on Friday, November 16, 2012. Anyone interested should not miss it.
The agenda will be as follows:
Panel 1: The Law and Business of Sculpture and Fine Art Multiples
Panel 2: Stewardship of Art Collections: What Lawyers Need to Know
Panel 3: The Law of Antiquities
Keynote Address: An Ethical GPS for an International Art Practice
Panel 4: The Arts on Capitol Hill
Panel 5: Trusts, Estates and Art: What Lawyers Need to Know
Panel 6: Legal Issues Surrounding Art Galleries and Art Dealing
An outstanding faculty includes:
Hon Stephen G. Crane (Ret.), Raymond J. Dowd (Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP), Keynote Speaker Alexandra Darraby (The Art Law Firm, author, Art Artifact Architecture & Museum Law), and Helen Allen (Allen Cooper Enterprises), Judith Bresler (Withersworldwide), L. Eden Burgess (Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC), John Cahill (Lynn¦Cahill, LLP), Maura Kehoe Collins (Artiphile, Art Collections Management Services), Darlene Fairman (Herrick Feinstein LLP), Hon. Helen Freedman (App. Div. First Dept.), Hon. Nicholas Garaufis (E.D.N.Y.), Hon. Kristin Booth Glen (New York County Surrogate's Court), Hon. Sherry Klein Heitler (Administrative Judge for Civil Matters, First Judicial District), Hon. Barbara Jaffe (Acting Justice, Supreme Court, New York County), Christine Lepera (Mitchell Silberg & Knupp LLP), Ralph Lerner (Withersworldwide), Sharon Levin (Asset Forfeiture Dept., U.S. Attorney's Office, S.D.N.Y.), Ann Lydecker (Cirkers, Fine Art Storage & Logistics), James McAndrew (Grunfeld Desiderio Lebowitz Silverman Klestadt LLP), Michael McCullough (Michael McCullough LLC), William Pearlstein (Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP), Hon. Delissa Ridgway (U.S. Court of International Trade), Chris Robinson (Davis Wright Tremaine LLP), Kirsten Squires (Cook Maran & Associates, Innovative Insurance Strategies), Renee Vara (Vara Art), Marion Werkheiser (Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC)
