How To Testify Before Congress: It's a Whole New World - January 13

Samuel L. Clemens -  Mark Twain - Congressional Gadfly

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Please join us this Thursday to get Bill LaForge's great new book:  How To Testify Before Congress.

The book features Samuel Clemens (p/k/a Mark Twain)'s testimony before Congress on copyright, which is a big hoot.

Thursday, January 13, 2011, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
3 MCLE Credits: 1.5 Skills; 1.5 Professional Practice
New York County Lawyers' Association http://www.nycla.org/
Testifying before Congress is different from giving testimony in any other forum – including courts of law – because the rules are different and the deck is stacked. This CLE will cover preparation and delivery of
congressional testimony from A to Z: the

• context and climate of the committee hearings process;
• how hearings are organized and staged;
• who should testify and how to get invited;
• the types of hearings and committee hearing players;
• preparation of a stellar written statement;
• rehearsal of the witness;
• key ingredients to superbly delivered oral testimony;
• how to respond to committee questions, including handling hostile inquiries and interrogators;
• how to excel as a witness with adequate preparation; and,
• strategies to maximize (or minimize) testimony impact and how to mitigate potential communication crisis.

This program provides a must have tutorial on preparing and delivering testimony before Congress and in Congressional hearings for use by lawyers, agencies, associations, corporations, military personnel, NGO’s
and state and local officials.

Attendees at the program will receive a copy of Testifying Before Congress, by William N. LaForge, The Capital.Net, Inc. ©2010.
 
Program Co-Sponsor: Southern District of New York Chapter of the Federal Bar Association

Program Chair and Moderator: Raymond Dowd, Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP

Faculty: William N. LaForge, Winstead PC, author of Testifying Before Congress
Luke McGrath, Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP
Jeff Richardson, Starkman Associates

Link to flyer with full information here:
http://www.scribd.com/full/46680881?access_key=key-1ckb9vquh4vg3kxalu24

 Purchase Copyright Litigation Handbook 2010 by Raymond J. Dowd from West here  

Copyright and Fine Art: Rave Reviews at New York County Lawyers' Association

Corot's Portrait of a Girl

Last week I gave a three-hour CLE program at New York County Lawyers' Association on Copyright and Fine Art, together with the Hon. Stephen G. Crane of JAMS who acted as moderator:



Some nice words from NYCLA's Executive Director Bari Chase:

We just compiled the comments from Tuesday’s program and as you can see you got rave reviews.

“Speaker knew exactly what he was talking about. Very good job!”

“Loved it. Wonderful. Very interesting. (Please consider holding another art law symposium, too)”

“It was really interesting—pleasantly surprised”

“Perhaps the best seminar I’ve attended at NYCLA”

“The information was very interesting, and the speaker was clear, dynamic, and knowledgeable”



 Purchase Copyright Litigation Handbook from West here  

Copyright, Architecture and McMansions

Architectural Works & Copyright Law:

Would you like fries with that McMansion?

A Joint Meeting of the Construction Law

Committee and the IP Subcommitteeof EMIPS

Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Time: 6:00 pmLocation: NYCLA, 14 Vesey Street; Board Room

Presenters: Raymond Dowd and Braden Farber

Please join us for a discussion of Axelrod & Cherveny v. Winmar Homes(E.D.N.Y. March 6, 2007)http://www.websupp.org/data/EDNY/2:05-cv-00711-46-EDNY.pdf<http://www.websupp.org/data/EDNY/2:05-cv-00711-46-EDNY.pdf > and howcopyright law applies to architectural works under the Architectural WorksCopyright Act.

Our guest speaker, Braden Farber, was lead counsel in theAxelrod case. Pictures of the architectural works at issue are available athttp://www.archpaper.com/news/2007_0501.htm.

Biographies:Raymond J. Dowd is a member of Dunnington, Bartholow & Millers's corporate,litigation and arbitration practice groups. He has broad commercial litigation experience in both federal and state courts, and has representedcopyright, trademark and domain name owners and content providers intransactions and litigation of almost every type, representing bothplaintiffs and defendants. He has conducted numerous bench and jury trials,and arbitrations, and has obtained, enforced, and collected numerousjudgments. In addition, he has provided corporate and transactionalrepresentation for a number of entrepreneurial companies from theincorporation and startup phase through significant growth. Mr. Dowd regularly speaks to trade associations on copyright, trademark andlitigation issues, and participates in organizing continuing legal educationprograms. Additionally, Mr. Dowd is the author of the Copyright LitigationHandbook. (http://www.dunnington.com/biodowd.html).

Braden Farber is a partner at Farber, Brocks & Zane. Mr. Farber specializesin representing architects, engineers, other design professionals andcontractors in construction related matters, and also serves as counsel tomany design firms, property owners, real estate developers and contractors.Mr. Farber is a member of several design professional organizations andsocieties, is a frequent lecturer on relevant topics of interest, and alsoprovides accredited continuing education courses. Mr. Farber also handlesgeneral liability and environmental claims for private and municipal property owners, contractors and other business owners.(http://fbzlaw.com/Attorneys/BradenFarber.php)

*From a New York County Lawyers' Association bulletin. Architecture and copyright is a hot topic. Many builders and architects don't know their rights and how to protect themselves. As we head into a recession, we should see many litigations relating to construction hitting the federal courts under the guise of copyright. Special thanks to EMIPS Chair Olivera Medenica and Construction Law Committee Chair Carol Sigmond for putting this together and getting us NYCLA's prestigious Board Room.