Senior Counsel Channah Norman
is an experienced business and legal advisor on museums, cultural
property and the art market, combining eight years as museum
general counsel with seven years as an appellate litigator.
WASHINGTON, July 11,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Shook, Hardy & Bacon is
pleased to announce Senior Counsel Channah
Norman as co-chair of the firm's growing Art Law Practice.
Norman joins Shook after serving as Chief Counsel for the U.S. Army
Center of Military History, where she provided strategic advice and
legal counsel for the National Museum of the U.S. Army and 46
subsidiary Army museums, as well as the Army Artifact Collection.
She will advise clients nationally from Shook's Washington, D.C. and New York locations.
Shook's Art Law Practice brings together attorneys
coast-to-coast from the firm's business litigation, class action
and appellate, corporate services, privacy and data security, and
intellectual property practices, to assist clients navigating the
art and cultural property sector. Norman will lead the new group
alongside Executive Committee Member Alicia Donahue and Class
Action & Appellate Litigation Co-Chair Tristan Duncan.
"Shook already has a long history of working with key
stakeholders in the art market," said Norman. "I'm pleased to
expand the services the firm can offer clients who have questions
around the sale and transfer of art, copyright disputes, and the
repatriation of cultural works."
The Art Law Practice provides legal counsel to museums, dealers,
collectors, financial institutions and insurers—among others—on
issues related to repatriation and restitution, copyright status,
infringement claims, and disputes arising from authenticity
concerns, sales agreements and contracts, and insurance coverage.
The group will also advise clients on the use of artificial
intelligence to generate new works or designs.
"We are delighted to welcome Channah to the firm. Her former
experience as museum chief counsel will prove invaluable for our
clients facing complex business and insurance issues related to art
and cultural property," said Duncan.
During her time in museum administration, Norman advised
national institutions on sensitive repatriation and restitution
matters, such as Nazi propaganda art, as well as implementation of
the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA). She also led a team in drafting a Collections Management
Plan setting out the policies and procedures for all aspects of
museum operations. Before her tenure at the U.S. Army Center of
Military History, Norman served as an appellate litigator with the
Department of Justice.
Norman holds Bachelor's Degrees in Art History and French from
Cornell University, a Master's Degree
in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of
Art in London, and an LL.M. in Art & Cultural Property
from Georgetown University Law Center.
She received her Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico. Norman also studied at
the Sorbonne and the Geneva Institute in Transnational Law.
Norman currently serves as a faculty member of the Museum
Studies Master's Degree Program at George
Washington University. She also completed a three-year term
on the Steering Committee for the Legal Issues in Museum
Administration Conference, and formerly chaired the Art &
Cultural Heritage Law Committee of the American Bar Association's
Section of International Law.
Norman is a regular presenter at art law conferences across the
country, and she has performed a detail to INTERPOL's Cultural
Property Crimes Program. Throughout her studies, she has held
multiple arts-related internships, including work at the Mimi Ferzt
Gallery in New York City, the
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San
Francisco, Bonhams London, the Robert Holden Ltd. art
consultancy in London, and the
National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C.
About Shook, Hardy & Bacon
Founded in 1889, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. has 19 offices
in the United States and
London, with attorneys and
professional staff serving clients in the health, science and
technology sectors in areas ranging from product liability defense
and business litigation to intellectual property prosecution and
litigation, environmental and toxic tort, privacy and data security
and regulatory counseling.
View original content to download
multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/channah-norman-former-museum-general-counsel-to-lead-shooks-expanded-art-law-practice-302195116.html
SOURCE Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.