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 Francisco)

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

Jacqueline R. Bart
(Toronto)

Bart & Associates
Law Chambers
Barristers and Solicitors
181 University Avenue
Suite 2200
Toronto, Ontario M5H 3M7
(416) 601-1346
www.bartlaw.ca

Practice Areas - Immigration Law

Jacqueline R. Bart, Esq.  bart@bartlaw.ca

• Author three leading Canadian Immigration law books, including the Relocation Treatise (Bart and Fragomen's Canadian/US Relocation Law: Immigration, Employment, Customs and Taxation Law, at 2000 page loose leaf service published by Carswell and updated quarterly on US and Canadian Immigration) and numerous other articles and publications.
• Chair of Global Migration Group, RDC American Immigration Lawyers Association.
• Co-Chair of Global Migration Action Group American Immigration Lawyers Association Global Migration Forum.
• Retired Member of the Consular Corps of Toronto, Honorary Consul of Ecuador, Ex Officio and member of board of directors and advisory boards of various charity organizations.
• Chair of CLE Institute of OBA on Immigration Issues, Chair of UIA Nationality and Immigration Working Group Conference, Vice-Chair of Employment and Immigration Committee of IPBA.
• Member of Board of Directors of the INBLF and Co-Chair of INBLF Board of Directors' Practice Group Committee.
• Ms. Bart has presented before the World Trade Organization on GATS and Migration issues. She has held various positions as an elected executive officer of the National Canadian Bar Association Immigration and the Ontario Bar Association. She is the Past-Chair of the Ontario Bar Association, Immigration Section CBSA Port of Entry Subcommittee, and is a Law Society of Upper Canada Immigration expert and mentor.

Johannes Willheim
(Austria)

Willheim Muller Rechtsanwalte
Rockhgasse 6
A 1010 Wien
Austria
Tel: +43 (1) 535 8008
Fax : +43 (1) 535 8008 50
M + (664) 535 08 04

ww.wmlaw.at

Dr. Johannes Willheim: j.willheim@wmlaw.at

Cárdenas & Cárdenas Abogados Ltda.
Cra 7 No. 71-52 Torre B Piso 9.
Bogotá
Colombia
Tel: (571) 313 78 00 - 312 36 00
www.cardenasycardenas.com


Eduardo Cárdenas-Caballero, Esq. ecardenas@cardenasycardenas.com

Byron Cannon
(Australia)

Ferguson Cannon Lawyers
Level 1, 17 Southern Drive
Maroochydore, Qld. 4558
Australia
Ph: +61 7 5443 6600
www.fclawyers.com.au

Byron Cannon, Esq.: byron@fclawyers.com.au