Raymond J. Dowd
is a member of DBM's corporate,
intellectual property,
litigation and arbitration and
art law practice groups. He has
broad commercial litigation experience in both federal and
state trial and appellate courts, representing both plaintiffs
and defendants in copyright, trademark, domain name owners
and content providers in litigation and arbitration. Representations
include conducting bench and jury trials, arbitrations, and
administrative proceedings, emergency applications for injunctive
relief, quashing subpoenas, obtaining, enforcing, and collecting
judgments. Trust and estates matters include contested probate
proceedings through trial, disputes involving heirship and
decedents' estates. International litigation includes conducting
depositions in Canada, France and Switzerland, pursuing discovery
through letters rogatory, obtaining service of process in
foreign countries, obtaining and challenging foreign expert
and legal opinions including cross-examination at trial.
Corporate counseling includes corporate and transactional
work for entrepreneurial companies including international
licensing. Counseling art owners and dealers includes transactional
representation, UCC filings, tracking and recovering stolen
art, handling disputes involving provenance, authenticity
and theft. Trademark counseling includes registration, policing
and enforcing rights of trademark owners and users. Counseling
political candidates includes election day onsite monitoring,
poll access challenges, signature challenges, and matters
involving election law and political campaigns.
Selected Lectures: "Conflicts of Law in Art Disputes"
Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute, New York
County Lawyers' Association (2008); "Murder, Mystery
and Egon Schiele's Dead City: Swiss Laundering of Stolen Austrian
Art" (Jewish Museum, Berlin Germany); "Fritz Grunbaum's
Art Collection: Legal Obstacles to the Recovery of Stolen
Art" (Prague Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, Czech
Republic); "U.S. Copyright Law for the Non-U.S. Lawyer"
(Montreal and Quebec City Canada and Berlin, Germany); "Copyright
Litigation," New York County Lawyers' Association (2005);
"International Copyright: Foreign Copyrights in U.S.
Courts," New York County Lawyers' Association (2008);
"When Art Meets Commerce, What Happens?" Copyright
Society of the U.S.A. (Boston, San Francisco and Philadelphia
Chapters), Federal Bar Association (Connecticut, Minneapolis
and New Orleans Chapters); "Nazi Art Looting" Federal
Bar Association (Cleveland Chapter).
Of Note: Petitioned successfully for removal of the co-executors
of American Tobacco heiress Doris Duke's estate, upheld the
first honorary pet trust challenged in New York history, obtaining
a $100,000 trust for heiress Doris Duke's dogs.
Memberships and Affiliations:
Federal Bar Association - Vice President for the Second Circuit
(2008-present), Editorial Board, The Federal Lawyer
Magazine, President of Southern District of New York Chapter
(2006-2008); Copyright Society of the U.S.A.; New York State
Bar Association - Commercial and Federal Litigation Section,
Intellectual Property Law Section; New York County Lawyers'
Association - Board of Directors (2003 - 2006), Co-Chair,
Entertainment Media, Intellectual Property and Sports Law
Section (2000 - 2003), Continuing Legal Education Committee
(2003 - 2008); National Arts Club.
Bar Admissions:
New York (1993); U.S. District Court for the Southern and
Eastern Districts of New York (1994); Northern U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1998); U.S. Supreme Court
(2000); U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New
York (2000); U.S. Tax Court (2007); U.S. Court of International
Trade (2006).
Education: Manhattan
College (B.A. International Studies 1986); Fordham University
School of Law (J.D. 1991), Articles Editor, Fordham International
Law Journal.
Languages: French
(Certificate, Sorbonne Paris France 1985), Italian (Certificate,
Centro Linguistico Dante Alighieri 1991)
