Center for Art Law’s Art Lawyering Bootcamp: Artist-Dealer Relationships was an in-person, full-day training aimed at preparing lawyers for working with visual artists and dealers, in the unique aspects of their relationship. The bootcamp was led by veteran attorneys specializing in art law.
This Bootcamp provided participants — attorneys, law students, law graduates and legal professionals — with foundational legal knowledge related to the main contracts and regulations governing dealers’ and artists’ businesses.
Bootcamp participants received training materials, including presentation slides and an Art Lawyering Bootcamp handbook with additional reading resources.
About the Instructors
Lindsay Korotkin
Lindsay Korotkin is a partner at ArentFoxSchiff’s Intellectual Property department, where she advises companies and creators in the art, media & entertainment, fashion & retail and technology industries.
Lindsay’s practice focuses on copyright, trademark, trade dress, right of publicity, and art market litigation, prosecution, and transactions. In the litigation space, Lindsay represents clients in connection with trademark, copyright, and design patent infringement, trademark dilution, defamation, breach of contract, and other related claims in federal and state court, as well as issues of trademark and copyright registrability at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and Copyright Office Review Board. She also works closely with foreign counsel to oversee her clients’ foreign disputes and to coordinate claims and defenses when those disputes span around the world. In the prosecution space, Lindsay helps clients obtain trademark and copyright registrations and manages worldwide IP portfolios in an array of fields, including for one of the largest companies in the world. She also provides day-to-day counseling and advice on issues including trademark, copyright, moral rights, and right of publicity protection and enforceability, in addition to performing high-volume global trademark clearances for names, logos, and designs. In the transactional space, Lindsay has extensive experience drafting and negotiating a wide array of agreements across industries, including IP licenses, joint venture agreements, gallery representation and consignment agreements, advertising services agreements, book publishing agreements, releases, production agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and settlement and co-existence agreements.
Lindsay holds a JD from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, cum laude, and is admitted to practice law in the state of New York. She is also an Advisory Board Member at the Center for Art Law.
Dean Nicyper
Dean Nicyper is a partner at Withersworldwide. He focuses on commercial disputes, contract disputes, art law, intellectual property, fiduciary liability, product liability, private company investor disputes, and securities litigation and investigations. Dean also has litigated matters involving mergers and acquisitions, the First Amendment, media, constitutional law, and environmental contamination. He has handled trials and cases in federal and state courts around the United States. In addition, Dean has negotiated and drafted many agreements in art and intellectual property transactions.
Among his various clients, Dean has successfully represented one of the two largest art auction houses in dozens of lawsuits covering a broad range of art law-related issues, such as the authenticity of works of art, art fraud, auction law, consignment obligations as well as rights and obligations of parties in loan transactions where works of art have been pledged as collateral. His experience also has expanded to include blockchain and technology based art authentication as well as artificial intelligence art generation issues. Dean has represented artists and their families and foundations, art dealers and agents, art collectors, and art appraisers in many art-related disputes. He was lead counsel in the initial cases uncovering the two of the largest art fraud scandals in the past 20 years, and counsel for victims of two of the other largest art fraud scandals. Dean was head of Withers US Dispute Resolution Division for eight years and previously was Chair of the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association.
Zachary Goldman
Zachary Goldman has extensive experience working on complex regulatory and enforcement matters related to OFAC sanctions, anti-money laundering (AML) and financial crime risk management issues. Mr. Goldman serves as a trusted advisor for the financial services and other sectors as they seek to perform risk assessments, evaluate the AML and sanctions risks associated with new commercial activities or transactions, and develop and enhance financial crimes compliance programs. Mr. Goldman has particular expertise advising banks and financial technology companies on AML and sanctions risk management issues, and in conducting internal investigations and responses to government inquiries from regulatory and enforcement authorities around the world for global banks and other financial institutions related to anti-money laundering and sanctions issues.
Tanya Layne
Tanya Layne is an accomplished legal professional currently serving as Chief Legal Officer at Gagosian since August 2021. Prior to this role, Layne held significant positions at Sotheby’s, including Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Head of Commercial Transactions, from May 2016 to August 2021, and earlier as Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel. Layne also founded The Layne Firm LLC and served as Principal from May 2013 to May 2016. Earlier experience includes attorney work at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, and finance roles at Miramax and NBC. Layne obtained a Doctor of Law (JD) from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting from Baruch College.
Diana Poussin
Diana Poussin is an experienced legal professional specializing in art law and civil matters, currently serving as Counsel at Gagosian since June 2023. Previously, Poussin held the position of Associate Counsel at Phillips from December 2020 to June 2023 and worked as an Associate at London Fischer LLP from September 2017 to December 2020, focusing on coverage disputes and civil claims, as well as conducting depositions and leading motion practice. Poussin’s legal education includes a Juris Doctor degree from Cardozo School of Law, where involvement in various law committees and journals was prominent, along with a Bachelor’s Degree from Florida International University. Early career experiences include internships in the art law field and serving as a judicial intern to The Honorable Arthur F. Engoron.
Charity Gates
Charity Gates is an associate attorney at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP, working primarily in the fields of Art Law and IP. While in law school, Charity served as the Articles Editor of the International Comparative, Policy & Ethics Law Review. She also completed internships at Louis Vuitton Americas, Christie’s, the New York State Supreme Court, and CDAS. Charity studied abroad in Paris, France during her time at Emory and is proficient in French.
Prior to joining CDAS, Charity worked in a boutique international law firm working with French companies starting their business in the U.S. Charity has prior experience as an associate at a firm providing legal services to visual artists. Additionally, she was a rights and clearance associate at a major news organization, focusing on image rights and intellectual property issues.
Recording
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