Leonard D. DuBoff
Leonard D. DuBoff is an internationally recognized expert who has lectured on legal issues throughout the world. He began his legal career as a practicing lawyer in New York and relocated to Palo Alto, California, where he started his teaching career at the Stanford Law School. Subsequently, he moved to Portland, Oregon, where he taught law at Lewis & Clark Law School. DuBoff spent almost a quarter of a century teaching business and intellectual property law.
While a full-time law professor, DuBoff was also “of counsel” to law firms and maintained those relationships until 1994 when he left full-time teaching to found his own law firm, now known as the DuBoff Law Group, PC, which specializes in business and intellectual property law, representing writers, publishers, and others involved in creative endeavors. DuBoff has received academic awards from President Lyndon Johnson and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and in 1990, he received the Governor’s Arts Award from Governor Neil Goldschmidt of Oregon.
Not only does Leonard DuBoff practice law, he has also been involved in its creation. In the late 1980s, he assisted with the drafting of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, at the request of Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. He has also provided Congress with testimony related to accession to several cultural and intellectual property treaties, and he has worked with state legislatures on their legislation as well.
A prolific author, DuBoff has written numerous articles for scholarly journals, practical articles for lawyers’ bar publications, and articles for non-lawyers. He has regular columns in several magazines. He is coauthor of two law school texts, Art Law: Cases and Materials and First Amendment and Censorship. He has written a host of other books as well, including Art Law: Domestic and International, a three-volume treatise The Art Law Deskbook, The Book Publishers’ Legal Guide, The Antique and Art Collector’s Business Guide, and Art Law in a Nutshell. His Business Encyclopedia series includes: The Crafts Business Encyclopedia, The Art Business Encyclopedia, and The Performing Arts Business Encyclopedia. His (In Plain English)® series includes: The Law (in Plain English)® for Crafts, The Law (in Plain English)® for Craftspeople, The Law (in Plain English)® for Galleries, The Law (in Plain English)® for Photographers, The Law (in Plain English)® for Health Care Professionals, High-Tech Law (in Plain English):® An Entrepreneur’s Guide, The Law (in Plain English)® for Small Business, The Law (in Plain English)® for Doctors, Dentists, and Other Health Professionals, The Law (in Plain English)® for Restaurants and Others in the Food Industry, and The Law (in Plain English)® for Writers.
DuBoff is a pioneer in the field of art law, having established the art law section of the Association of American Law Schools and having served as a special project consultant with the National Endowment for the Arts. He also served on the Board of the Oregon Humanities Commission and acted as advisor to numerous cultural institutions.
Sarah J. Tugman
Sarah J. Tugman grew up in Walla Walla, Washington, and attended Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, in 1983 magna cum laude, at the top of her class. She practiced for almost thirty-five years in Anchorage, Alaska, and will continue to practice in Oregon “of counsel” with the DuBoff Law Group, PC with an office in Lincoln City. She is licensed to practice in Alaska, in Oregon, in various federal courts, and in the US Supreme Court. She is an avid reader and has a great appreciation of fine writing, coming from a long line of lawyers and newspaper people.