Specialties
The Law Office of Richard A. Altman specializes in intellectual property law, art law (sales and purchases, auctions, authenticity issues, stolen art), copyrights and trademarks, internet law, defamation, civil rights and general commercial and real estate litigation and transaction matters. The firm has handled many landmark matters involving such subjects as music downloading, Nazi-looted art recovery, attributions of famous art works, and the rights of artists and dealers. The firm has an international practice, with clients in Switzerland, France, Canada and Germany. The firm has briefed and argued more than twenty-five appeals in the New York State Court of Appeals, three Appellate Divisions and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and twice petitioned for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court. The firm will be listed in the 2014 edition of New York Metro Super Lawyers, an honor accorded to only 5% of all the lawyers in New York City, and based upon ind
