Leonard D. DuBoff is a practicing attorney, former law school professor, and past president of the Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. A recognized expert on art law and a frequent lecturer, he is the author of more than fifteen books on art law and art businessMichael D. Murray graduated from Loyola College in Maryland and from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He was a member of a national champion Jessup International LawMoot Court team at Columbia, and Notes Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. After law school, he clerked for United States District Judge John F. Nangle of the Eastern District of Missouri, and Chair of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Murray also practiced commercial, intellectual property, and products liability litigation for seven years at Bryan Cave law firm in St.

Louis. After leaving private practice, Professor Murray taught at Saint Louis University Schoolof Law from 1998-2002. Leonard D. DuBoff began his renowned legal career teaching at the Stanford Law School. He then became a Professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, where he taught for over twenty-three years. DuBoff was Of Counsel to three Portland area law firms and one New York law firm before founding The DuBoff Law Group.DuBoff, who obtained his engineering degree from Hofstra University magna cum laude and his law degree summa cum laude from BrooklynLaw School, where he graduated with the then-highest academic average in the history of the law school, is licensed to practice in both New York and Oregon. He is also admitted to over fifteen federal courts-including the United States Court of International Trade and the United States Supreme Court.

His major practice areas include art law, crafts law, international law, copyright law, trademark law, and business law. He has served on task forces which revised numerous laws, including the Oregon corporation code and the Oregon not-for-profit corporation code, among others.He is an art lover and enthusiast with over thirty-five years'' experience studying, teaching, writing, and breathing art and crafts law, as well as working with creative people in other genres. Known as one of the leading authorities on art law, DuBoff''s works are frequently referenced by judges, lawyers, and anyone interested in knowing about the law in this field. He has served on numerousadvisory boards, testified before legislative bodies on both the state and federal levels, and received several accolades for his work and devotion, including the Oregon Governor''s Arts Award. DuBoff also received an award from President Lyndon Johnson for his academic achievements in the natural sciences and an award from New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller.DuBoff''s influence is immense. He is the author of over fifteen books directly related to art, crafts, galleries,photography, publishing, and business, as well as countless articles on these subjects.

In fact, one of his books has been translated into Chinese. In addition to The Antique and Art Collector''s Legal Guide (1st ed.), Sourcebooks, Inc./Sphinx Publishing is proud to publish his The Law (In Plain English) ® for Small Business (2nd ed.), The Law (In Plain English) ® for Writers (lead author with Bert Krages, 4th ed), and The Law (In Plain English) ® for Restaurants and Others in the Food Industry (lead author with Christy King, 1st ed.), as well as this volume, The Law (In Plain English) ® for Doctors, Dentists and Other Health Care Professionals. DuBoff is a frequent contributor to Art Trends Magazine, Communication Arts, Glass Craftsman, Picture Magazine, Woodshop News, Critical Issues, and numerous scholarly legal publications.DuBoff shares his passion with his wife and three children.

He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, though his firm handles matters throughout the United States on a regular basis. Christy O. King is an attorney in Portland, Oregon, where she is a principal with The DuBoff Law Group, LLC. She is licensed to practice in Oregon and Washington and for 15 years has had an active practice representing clients in intellectual property, business, employment, contract and corporate law matters.She is coauthor with Leonard DuBoff of the Deskbook of Art Law, the preeminant treatise in the field, Art Law in a Nutshell, The Law (In Plain English) ® for Restaurants and Others in the Food Industry, and The Law (In Plain English) ® for Doctors, Dentists and Other Health Care Professionals. She is also the co-author of numerous scholarly and practical articles which appear in bar journals, as well as editor-in-chief of the Critical Issues newsletter.King graduated from Louisiana State University with a degree in journalism and earned her law degree cum laude from Lewis & Clark Law School. Professor Michael D.

Murray graduated from Loyola College in Maryland and from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He was a member of a national champion Jessup International Law Moot Court team at Columbia, and Notes Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. After law school, he clerked for United States District Judge John F. Nangle of the Eastern District of Missouri, and Chair of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Murray also practiced commercial, intellectual property, and products liability litigation for seven years at Bryan Cave law firm in St. Louis. After leaving private practice, Professor Murray taught at Saint Louis University School of Law from 1998-2002, and the University of Illinois College of Law from 2002 to the present. Recently, he taught International Art Law in the University of San Diego Law School''s summer 2007 international and comparative law program in Florence, Italy.

He will be avisiting associate professor of law at Valparaiso University School of Law in 2008-09.Professor Murray''s most recent book projects are International Art Law: International, Transnational, and Comparative Perspectives on Law and the Arts, and The Law (in Plain English ®) for Health Care Professionals, both of which are expected in 2008. His most recent articles are Copyright, Originality, and the End of the Scènes à Faire and Merger Doctrines for Visual Works, 58 Baylor L.Rev. 779 (2006), The Positive Pedagogy of Presentations to Partners, 21 Second Draft 11 (Dec. 2006), and Communicating Explanatory Synthesis, 14 Perspectives 136 (Spring 2006). Professor Murray''s recent presentations include "DIOS MIO - The KISS Principle of Art," The Law and Ethics of Intellectual Property Lecture, University of Illinois School of Art and Design, March 3, 2008; "All''s Fair in Love and Art? Predominant Purpose, Transformation, and the Triumphant Return of Satire," The Taste of Art Lecture Series, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, February 25, 2008; "Oral Argument," at the University of Illinois Springfield Department of Legal Studies and the Institute for Legal, Legislative, and Policy Studies in May 2007; "Publishing Legal Writing Books," at the Legal Writing Institute National Conference in June 2006, and "Classical Rhetoric, Explanatory Synthesis, and the TREAT Paradigm" at Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville and the University of Wyoming College of Law in December 2005.Professor Murray currently has published thirteen books, including the recently updated Deskbook of Art Law (Oxford University Press 2007), Adversarial Legal Writing and Oral Argument (Foundation Press 2006), Appellate Advocacy and Moot Court (Foundation Press 2006), Legal Research Methods (Foundation Press 2006), Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis (Foundation Press 2006), Objective Legal Writing and Analysis(Foundation Press 2006), and First Amendment and Censorship (Oxford University Press 2005).

He also has published Legal Research and Writing and Legal Research and Writing Problems and Exercises (Foundation Press 2005) as part of a Foundation Press series "Legal Research and Writing" by Professor Murray and Christy DeSanctis of George Washington. His casebook, Art Law: Cases and Materials (William S. Hein 2004), is one of the most widely adopted casebooks in the field.