Combining an academic and personal background in arts and culture, a strong foundation in the nuts and bolts of complex legal transactions developed as an associate in private practice and an understanding of the nonprofit environment from her years with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Susan Lutzker represents both businesses and tax-exempt organizations on a diverse range of issues. In the context of the firm’s intellectual property practice, she specializes in copyright and other issues related to the use of the Internet and new media.

Prior to establishing Lutzker & Lutzker with her husband Arnold Lutzker, she spent twenty years as in-house attorney at the headquarters of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a federally-chartered nonprofit organization charged with mobilizing and leading the private preservation movement in the United States. She represented the National Trust in helping to finance complex projects designed to rehabilitate historic communities and landmark properties and build cultural pride, often in blighted inner-city neighborhoods. She developed a special interest in the operation of entrepreneurial activities by nonprofit organizations.

Her early legal practice was with Lane and Edson, P.C., where she worked on novel tax issues involving the syndication of low-income housing, a skill later used at the National Trust to support the Trust’s participation in rehabilitation projects utilizing the historic preservation and low-income tax credits. While at Lane & Edson, she authored articles on real estate financing techniques.

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