Raymond J. Dowd Named General Counsel of the Federal Bar Association

From  Reuters:  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS132178+29-Sep-2010+BW20100929

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100929005938/en/Dunnington-Announces-Raymond-J.-Dowd-Named-General

Dunnington Announces Raymond J. Dowd Named General Counsel of the Federal Bar Association

Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller, LLP, a leading New York City-based law firm established in 1921 that provides services including trusts and estates, corporate, taxation, litigation, real estate, construction, intellectual property and art law announced today that litigation partner Raymond J. Dowd was named General Counsel of the Federal Bar Association (FBA), the premier bar association serving the federal practitioner and the federal judiciary.

Mr. Dowd, who currently serves as the FBA’s Vice President for the Second Circuit, was appointed last week as General Counsel at the New Orleans annual convention. Mr. Dowd served as President of the FBA’s Southern District of New York Chapter and sits on the Editorial Board of The Federal Lawyer.

“At Dunnington, we have a proud and long-standing tradition of volunteerism and support of our local and national bar associations. We are very proud that Ray has been named General Counsel of the FBA,” said Carol Sigmond, the firm’s administrative partner.

Mr. Dowd’s litigation practice recently garnered national attention with a victory at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. In Bakalar v. Vavra, Mr. Dowd represented descendants of Holocaust victims in recovering Nazi looted art, successfully arguing that New York law should trump Swiss law in determining title to stolen artworks. An experienced federal and state litigator, Mr. Dowd’s victories include summary judgment and a bench trial in trademark and unfair competition claims over the use of FASHION TELEVISION and litigation involving the estate of heiress Doris Duke, including removing the corporate fiduciary U.S. Trust Co. and upholding a $100,000 trust for her dogs.

Mr. Dowd has repeatedly been named a New York Superlawyer and is active in the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. and New York County Lawyers’ Association. He is author of Copyright Litigation Handbook (5th Ed. 2010), a Thomson West publication, the Copyright Litigation Blog, and is a former contributor to the New York Law Journal.

About Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP
The firm was established in 1921 in New York City and provides a broad range of legal services to individual and corporate clients. For more information, visit http://www.dunnington.com/.

About the Federal Bar Association
The FBA is the premier bar association serving the federal practitioner and judiciary. For more information, visit http://www.fedbar.org/.

Starkman & Associates
Jeffrey Richardson, 212-252-8545, ext. 11
jrichardson@starkmanassociates.com



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Law Bloggers: West Publishing's List of Authors Who Blog

West Publishing has a program of "Key Authors" and has published a list of those who blog here (reproduced below).  The Volokh Conspiracy is probably the most famous with an Alexa ranking for today of just below 35,000.  I suspect the list is far from complete.

1. Stephen Bainbridge

ProfessorBainbridge.com
http://www.professorbainbridge.com/

2. Gary Becker
Richard Posner
The Becker-Posner Blog
http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/index.html

3.  Gerry W. Beyer
Wills, Trusts, and Estates Professor Blog
(Part of Law Professors Blog Network)
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/trusts_estates_prof/

4. William H. Burgess III
Florida Sentencing
A discussion of contemporary law, policy, and practice in Florida criminal sentencing
http://floridasentencing.blogspot.com/

5. Paul L. Caron
TaxProf Blog (A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network)
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/

6. John A. Day
Day on Torts Law Blog
http://www.dayontorts.com/

7. Raymond J. Dowd
Copyright Litigation Blog
http://copyrightlitigation.blogspot.com/

8.  Jon L. Gelman
Workers' Compensation
Helpful information about current developments in workers' compensation matters
http://workers-compensation.blogspot.com/

9.  Alan Gutterman
Gutterman Law & Business
The Business Counselor Blog
http://www.businesscounselorblog.com/
The Emerging Companies Blog
http://www.emergingcompaniesblog.com/

10. Charles T. Hall
Social Security News
Your source for news affecting the U.S. Social Security Administration copyright
http://socsecnews.blogspot.com/

11.  John Wesley Hall Jr.
Law of Criminal Defense.com
Website supporting Professional Responsibility in Criminal Defense Practice (2005)
http://www.lawofcriminaldefense.com/blog/

12.  Phyllis Weiss Haserot
Practice Development Counsel's Next Generation, Next Destination
http://www.nextgeneration-nextdestination.com/

13.  Paul Lesti
Lesti Structured Settlements
http://www.lestistructuredsettlement.typepad.com/

14.  Raymond Nimmer
Contemporary Intellectual Property, Licensing, and Information Law
http://www.ipinfoblog.com/

15.  Larry Ribstein
Ideoblog
A blog about ideas. Ideas are not beliefs or opinions.
http://www.ideoblog.org/

16.  Patricia E. Salkin
Law of the Land
A blog on land use law and zoning
http://lawoftheland.albanylaw.edu/

17.  Bruce Stern
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
http://www.braininjurylawblog.com/

18.  Eugene Volokh
The Volokh Conspiracy
http://volokh.com/

19.  Dennis Wall
Insurance Claims and Bad Faith Law Blog
http://www.insuranceclaimsbadfaith.typepad.com/
Insurance Claims and Issues
http://www.insuranceclaimsissues.typepad.com/

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Egon Schiele's Dead City: Current Issues In Nazi Art Looting and Recovery

Egon Schiele's Dead City III, from the collection of Fritz Grunbaum when he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1938 and then died penniless in Dachau, currently at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria

NYSBA Sections: Entertainment, Arts & Sports and Law (EASL) Section  Events

http://www.nysba.org/

Egon Schiele's Dead City: Current Issues In Nazi Art Looting and Recovery

March 24, 2010
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Sotheby's Institute of Art

570 Lexington Ave., NYC
1.5 MCLE credits in Professional Practice

Register online > www.nysba.org/deadcity
SEATING IS LIMITED PLEASE REGISTER EARLY
Speaker:

Raymond Dowd, Esq.
Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP

Sponsored by the Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section's Committee on Fine Arts

Program Description:

In 1998, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau seized Egon Schiele's Dead City and Portrait of Wally at the Museum of Modern Art, creating a scandal that changed the legal landscape of Europe and the United States for victims of Nazi persecution and their survivors. Ray Dowd represents the heirs of Fritz Grunbaum, a Jewish cabaret performer murdered in the Dachau Concentration Camp. Fritz's wife Lily died in the Minsk Death Camp. Grunbaum's art collection surfaced in Switzerland in 1956 under disputed circumstances, and in the first Holocaust-era art recovery trial in U.S. history, Bakalar v. Vavra, the District Court found that passing the artwork through Switzerland gave it clean title. The case is now on appeal to the Second Circuit. This presentation will cover the legal and evidentiary obstacles to litigating Holocaust-era expropriation and provide legal practitioners with basic tools to assemble evidence and prove Nazi property looting.

Pricing:

$25.00 for Members
$35.00 for non-members
$15.00 for students

For more information contact: Carolyn Clayton at 518-487-5596 or cclayton@nysba.org

Register online > www.nysba.org/deadcity

Go to http://www.nysba.org/ to see upcoming events,

access section publications, blogs and much more.

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, ONE ELK STREET, ALBANY, NY 12207 • PH: (518) 463-3200 FX: (518) 487-5517

Invitation: February 11 Lecture at Cincinnati Museum Center on Recovery of Nazi Looted Art

Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal

invites you to an evening with

Raymond J. Dowd, Esquire
Partner, Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP
Thursday, February 11, 2010
6 p.m.

Heavy appetizers and cash bar

7:30 p.m.

Insights Lecture Series

Murder, Mystery, and The Dead City

Mr. Dowd will speak about the battles to recover art stolen from Jewish Holocaust victims, the undisclosed role of the Swiss in laundering looted art for the Nazis, and the implications for U.S. museums holding artworks of European origin.

$25 per person for reception includes parking.

Lecture open to the public. Parking $4.

Reception reservations requested to Sarah McManus

by Monday, February 8, 2010

(513) 287-7074 or smcmanus@cincymuseum.org
In partnership with

Co-sponsored by Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law and

the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.