Alexandra Darraby is a founder and principal of The Art Law Firm, a named Super Lawyer®, counsel to creative sectors in the arts, new media, performance, entertainment, fashion, publishing, nonprofits, technology and architecture. DARRABY ON ART LAW, authored by Alexandra, published by the leading global legal and media corporation, Thomson Reuters West, is the benchmark for the art law field. Ms. Darraby, a gallerist of contemporary art in all media, has direct experience with museums, collectors, dealers, auctions, curators, boards of directors and trustees, informs the practice to the benefit of diverse clientele. Ms. Darraby’s clients and projects span four continents, and include institutions, corporations, governments, federal financial institutions, museums, individuals and foundations.
As legal advisor to pioneering clients, Ms. Darraby’s expertise is in innovative strategies on intellectual property, technology, development, production, distribution and licensing for multimedia and digital media.
Alexandra mediates and represents clients on damage, loss and valuation, of artworks on insurance claims, selected by Chubb as one of its expert resources for artwork and valuable items insured losses and damage and a court-referred mediator on loss of artworks, archives and art records. Ms. Darraby is a qualified, acknowledged and court appointed expert in the arts.
Alexandra is both an advocate as an attorney in private practice and a named Arbitrator on the National Roster of American Arbitration Association. She is also a certified mediator by California Lawyers for the Arts. A candidate in a JD-MBA program, Alexandra earned her J.D. at Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley, and awarded a Master of Arts at Berkeley specializing in East Asia. Ms. Darraby has handled museum and exhibition matters in China, served as a Delegate to China-U.S. SIPO Bar Council, and a co-Leader on Joint Task Force on Comments to China’s Copyright Law Revision.
Alexandra was hired from law school by a major national law firm and trained in the firm’s departments of litigation, corporate law, tax, non-profit law, and strategic planning. She has represented clients and consulted on corporate and copyright matters for the Art Law Firm in state, federal and appellate courts, and been awarded attorneys’ fees and costs on behalf of her clients. Admissions include the Court of International Trade, the Ninth Circuit, the Federal Circuit, the California Supreme Court, New York Supreme Court pro hac vice, and various district courts. Ms. Darraby is a mediator, represents clients in arbitration, a court-appointed expert, and has testified and served as an expert witness on civil and criminal matters, including authenticity, insured values and art fraud.
Ms. Darraby represents clients with respect to domestic and international matters involving U.S. Copyright Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the Internal Revenue Service Art Advisory Panel, the USPTO, and cross border exhibitions and loans involving Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. The U.S. Department of State appointed Ms. Darraby a specialist in Russia. She Co-Chaired the Intellectual Property Legal Frameworks in the Innovation Working Group for the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission.
Ms. Darraby represents legacy projects, foundations and estates and trusts, collections management, intellectual property and estate audits. The firm’s model agreements are used in various sectors in the arts. Client matters include collections management, internet advertising, auction agreements. art portfolio management, branding and merchandising, IP rights and usage and publicity rights, catalogue publishing, exhibitions and collections, and public art.
Ms. Darraby functions as outside general counsel to universities, foundations, and arts organizations, and as a consultant to governmental agencies on general and diverse matters, including catalogues raisonnee, moral rights, rights of privacy and publicity, corporate and non-profit law; international transactions, trade deals and purchase and sale, antiquities and war-era materials, authenticity, risk management, ethics and first amendment. She has served pro bono as counsel to national arts organizations, African American collections and museums and Friends of the Uffizi Gallery.
Interviews and comments appear in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Smithsonian, World Report, msnbc.comand other media sources. Alexandra is a sought-after presenter and keynote speaker for governments, arts and museums at prestigious venues in Paris, Madrid, London, Brussels, Moscow, Prague, St. Petersburg, and throughout Canada and the United States.
Ms. Darraby chaired the International Section of the California Bar Association, International Section, served on the Executive Committee, and chaired the International Section of California Lawyers Association. She was elected to the Governing Committee of the Forum on Entertainment and Sports Forum, founded and chaired New Media & Content Innovation in the ABA Section on International Law, founded and served as the Forum’s Division Chair of International and Arts & Museums. She served two terms as Chair of International Intellectual Property Committee, and Co-Chaired Ethics for ABA International Section.
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