INBLF Board of Directors

Steven Spielvogel - President
(New York) 

Gallion & Spielvogel
75 Rockefeller Plaza
18th Floor
New York, New York 10019
(212) 710-5160
http://www.gsbarristers.com/

Practice Areas - Commercial Litigation & White Collar Defense

Steven Spielvogel, Esq. steve@gsbarristers.com

• University of Pennsylvania, B.A., summa cum laude with distinction, J.D.
• Law clerk to the Honorable Richard Owen, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Law clerk to the Honorable William J. Holloway, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
• Former litigator at Sullivan Cromwell on Wall Street
• Has taught or presented lectures on numerous subjects at several of North America's most prestigious law schools, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania
• Former Scholar-in-Residence, Centre for Innovation Law & Policy at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
• Former Co-Chairman, Business & Technology Law Committee, LISTnet (New York's largest technology organization)
• Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Business Law & Technology
• Chairman, Board of Directors, Lawyers For Humanity Charitable Foundation, Inc.
• President and Chairman, Board of Directors, International Network of Boutique Law Firms
• President, International Association of Networks
• Former Chairman and Member, Board of Directors, Amphibian Productions, Inc. (a non-profit theater company)

Edward Gallion - Treasurer
(New York)

Gallion & Spielvogel
75 Rockefeller Plaza
18th Floor
New York, New York 10019
(212) 710-5160
http://www.gsbarristers.com/

Practice Areas - Commercial Litigation & White Collar Defense

Edward R. Gallion, Esq. edward@gsbarristers.com

• Northwestern University, B.A.
• Georgetown Law Center, J.D.
• Georgetown Law Review
• Former Legislative Director for the Honorable Gerald B.H. Solomon, U.S. House of Representatives (Chairman, House Rules Committee)
• Law Clerk to the Honorable Roger Miner (U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit)
• Former litigator at Sullivan & Cromwell on Wall Street
• Vice President of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms
• Member of the Nassau County Bar Association's Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation and Federal Courts Committees
• Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York

 Arnie Lutzker - Secretary
(Washington, DC)

Lutzker & Lutzker LLP
1233 Twentieth Street, N.W.
Suite 703
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 408-7600
http://www.lutzker.com

Practice Areas: Arts, Entertainment & Non-Profit Organizations

Arnold P. Lutzker, Esq. arnie@lutzker.com 

• CCNY, B.A. magna cum laude
• Harvard Law School, J.D. cum laude
• Legislative assistant, Cong. Jonathan B. Bingham (D-NY) 1971-72
• General Counsel, Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, 1987-present
• Board Member, Washington DC International Filmfest, 2000-present
• Counsel to touring exhibitions Jewels of the Romanovs: Treasures of the Russian Imperial Court (1996-1998), Palace of Gold & Light: Treasures of the Topkapi (2000-2001); President, Cultural Treasures Foundation (organizing: Treasures of Catherine the Great and Her Palace: The Amber Room and Other Mysteries)
• Special Counsel to Directors Guild of America (1986-1998), Artists Rights Foundation and The Film Foundation (1991-present), and The Johnson Group; producer of Paper Clips (Miramax Release, 2004)
• Author - Books: Content Rights for Creative Professionals: Copyrights and Trademarks in a Digital Age (Focal Press, 2002) (translated into Russian, 2005); Copyright & Trademarks for Media Professionals (Focal Press, 1997); Co-author: Artists, Technology & the Ownership of Creative Content (The Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communications, 2003); Growing Pains: Adapting Copyright for Libraries, Education, and Society (Rothman, 1997); Legal Problems in Broadcasting (Great Plains University Press, 1974); Videos - Copyright Compliance Series For Educators (Taylor Communications 2006); Copyrights: The Internet, Multimedia and the Law (Taylor Communications, 1997); Articles (partial list) "Altering the Contours of Copyright - The DMCA and the Unanswered Questions of Paramount Pictures Corp. v. 321 Studios," 21 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal 561 (March, 2005); "Trademarks and the Information Superhighway," Trademark World, Sept. 1995; "Overview of Copyright Licensing & the Internet," Licensing Journal (Aug. 2000)
• Selected as Washington DC "Super Lawyer"
• Assigned Martindale Hubbell's highest AV rating

Gary Hodder
(Toronto)

Hodder Barristers
181 University Avenue
Suite 2200
Toronto, Ontario M5H 3M7
(416) 601-6766
www.hodderbarristers.com

Practice Areas - Commercial Litigation

J. Gardner Hodder, Esq. ghodder@hodderbarristers.com

• Harvard University, AB., magna cum laude
• University of Pennsylvania, M.A.; University of Toronto, LL.B.
• Certified Specialist in Civil Litigation by the Law Society of Upper Canada; Recipient, First Trial Counsel to win a Class Action in Ontario
• Author, "Profiting from Tortious Use of Property: A Reply to the Lost Bargain Theory"
• Member, Canadian Bar Association, Law Society of Upper Canada, Metropolitan Toronto Lawyers' Association Advocates' Society and Ontario Trial Lawyers Association

Charles Kagay
(San Fransisco)

Spiegel Liao & Kagay, LLP
388 Market Street
Suite 900
San Francisco, California 94111
(415) 956-5959
http://www.slksf.com

Practice Areas - Commercial Litigation & Appeals

Charles Kagay, Esq. cmk@slksf.com 

• Harvard University, A.B., J.D.
• Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University), M.P.P.
• Certified Specialist, Appellate Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization
• Former Deputy Attorney General, State of California; former Chief Appellate Counsel, Office of Independent Counsel (U.S. Government); former Member and Advisor, State Bar of California's Executive Committee, Antitrust Section
• Former Member, Committee on Appellate Courts, State Bar of California; Northern California Superlawyer, 2004 to present

Peter Baugher
(Chicago)

Schopf & Weiss LLP
One South Wacker Drive
28th Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60606
(312) 701-9300
http://www.sw.com

 Practice Areas - Commercial Litigation

Peter Baugher, Esq. baugher@sw.com

• Princeton University, A.B.
• Yale University, J.D.
• Woodrow Wilson School Scholar; law clerk to the Honorable Philip W. Tone (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)
• President, Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association; Past Chair, Chicago Bar Association Committee on International and Foreign Law and Chicago Bar Association Committee on Federal Civil Practice; Arbitrator, National Association of Securities Dealers, National Futures Association; Director, Illinois Humanities Council; Member, Advisory Committee, Northwestern Law School Center for International Rights
• Co-Author: "A Trial Lawyer's Guide to Discovery in Federal and State Courts in Illinois" (1997, 2003); "Litigation Risk & Opportunity in the United States" (2003); "A Guide to Transnational Litigation," ABA International Litigation Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2, June 1997; "A New Way to Resolve International Disputes in Illinois," 88 Ill. Bar Journal 582, Oct. 2000; Member, American Bar Association (Sections on: Litigation; International Practice; Antitrust), American Law Institute and Chicago Lincoln Inn of Court (Past President)
• Assigned Martindale Hubbell's highest AV rating

Kerry Peck
(Chicago)

Peck, Bloom & Koenig, LLC
105 West Adams Street
31st Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60603
(312) 201-0900
http://www.peckbloom.com/

Practice Areas - Elder Law

Kerry R. Peck, Esq. kpeck@peckbloom.com

• Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, J.D., with honors
• Past President, Chicago Bar Association
• Selected in an Illinois Statewide Peer Review Survey as a top lawyer in trust and estate matters
• Special Assistant Corporate Counsel, City of Chicago; retained by the City of Chicago to revise the State of Illinois Elder Abuse and Neglect Act Statutes, 2004
• Immediate Past President, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys - Illinois Chapter; Member, Board of Directors, Center for Disability and Elder Law; Frequent Lecturer at events - including TV & Radio appearances - dealing with older adult issues
• Author of multiple articles on issues of older adults
• Member, Board of Directors, Suburban (Cook County) Area Agency on Aging
• Assigned Martindale-Hubbell's highest AV rating

Michael J. Goldberg
(Boston)

Cohn Whitesell & Goldberg LLP
101 Arch Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02110
(617) 951-2505
http://www.cwg11.com

Practice Areas - Bankruptcy

Michael J. Goldberg, Esq. Goldberg@cwg11.com

• Yale University, B.A. cum laude
• Fordham Law School, J.D. cum laude; Fordham Law Review
• Law Clerk, Justice Gary S. Stein, Supreme Court of New Jersey; Commercial Department, Hill & Barlow, P.C., 1987-2002
• Chair, Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights Practice Group, Sherin and Lodgen LLP, 2002-2005; Contributor, "Chapter 11 Theory and Practice: A Guide to Reorganization"; Co-Chair, "MCLE Bankruptcy Law Conference," Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2004-2007
• Adjunct Professor, Northeastern University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts
• Member, American Bankruptcy Institute, Turnaround Management Association (Co-Chair, Communications Committee, Northeast Chapter)
• Boston Bar Association (Bankruptcy Law Section); Real Estate Bar Association
• Listed in America's Leading Business Lawyers (Chambers & Partners USA), Best Lawyers in America, and Massachusetts Super-Lawyers
• Assigned Martindale Hubbell's highest AV rating