Join Us November 20 - 2015 Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute in NYC

8th Annual Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute

Friday, November 20, 2014

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM      Welcome  and Introduction by Program Chairs

Hon. Stephen Crane (Ret.), JAMS, Raymond Dowd, Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP; Judd Grossman,   Grossman LLP, Chair, NYCLA's Art Law Committee

9:15 AM – 10:30 AM       Panel 1: Challenges Faced by Claimants Navigating the World of

                         Holocaust Art Restitution

Moderator: Hon. Stephen Crane (Ret.), JAMS,

Clarence Epstein, Ph.D., Senior Director, Urban and Cultural Affairs, Concordia University

Thomas R. Kline, Andrews Kurth LLP

Elizabeth Rynecki, Director/Producer/Writer, Chasing Portraits

Connie Walsh, Holocaust Claims Processing Office, NYS  Dept. of Financial Services

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM     BREAK

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM    Panel 2: Wallflowers -- Equal Pay, Equal Wall Space?

Moderator: Hon.  Barbara Jaffe, NYS Supreme Court

 Frieda Kahlo, Guerrilla Girls

 Jonathan Meyers, Meyers Fried-Grodin LLP    

 Elizabeth Sackler, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum           

12:00 PM – 12:35 PM     Overview: What’s New in Art Law

Judd Grossman,   Grossman LLP, Chair, NYCLA's Art Law Committee

12:35 PM – 1:30 PM        Lunch/Lunchtime Program

A Tribute to Charles Goldstein and His Legacy as an Advocate for Recovering Holocaust Looted Art

Speakers: Lawrence M. Kaye and Howard N. Spiegler, Herrick Feinstein LLP

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM           Keynote Panel: Mediation And The Art of Bankruptcy

                                                Moderator: Hon. Loretta Preska, Chief Judge, SDNY
                                                Hon. Gerald Rosen, Chief Judge, ED Michigan 

                 Alfredo R. Pérez, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM          BREAK

2:45 PM –3:45 PM            Panel 3:   Who’s Listening? Amicus Briefs in Art Law Cases

Moderator: Hon. Robert Katzmann, Chief Judge, 2d Circuit

Ed Gaffney, Jr., Valparaiso University

Virginia Rutledge, Esq.

3:45 PM – 4:45 PM          Panel 4:  Art and Charitable Foundation Governance: The Cautionary

Tale of the National Arts Club

Moderator: Hon. Frederic Block, EDNY

Kevin P. Foley, Condon O'Meara McGinty & Donnelly LLP

Chris Poe,  President, National Arts Club Board of Governors

Roland Riopelle, Sercarz & Riopelle, LLP

4:45 PM –5:00 PM            Closing Remarks/Questions and Answers

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 Copyright law, fine art and navigating the courts. All practice, no theory.Copyright Litigation Handbook (Thomson Reuters Westlaw 2014-2015) by Raymond J. Dowd