Senior Partner
Susan@lutzker.com
Susan Lutzker practices in the
areas of nonprofit and arts law, with special emphasis on developing
entrepreneurial activities within nonprofit environments. She is
counsel to a variety of nonprofit clients in the areas of corporate
structure and governance, exempt organization tax issues, Internet
publishing activities, privacy policies, cultural activities, and
low-income housing. She also advises entertainment industry clients -
film, television, and theater - with respect to contractual and
intellectual property issues.
Ms. Lutzker has been a key participant in the major international art
exhibition, Palace of Gold & Light: Treasures from the
Topkapi, Istanbul, which toured the United States during
2000-2001. Her responsibilities have included negotiating agreements on
behalf of the sponsoring Palace Arts Foundation with museums,
consultants, vendors, and licensees, and advising on the governing
protocol with the Government of Turkey. She has also provided legal and
tax counsel to the Foundation in connection with the exhibition and
related fund-raising, merchandising and publishing activities.
Prior to starting Lutzker & Lutzker, Ms. Lutzker 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. Her work focused on using historic preservation
as a tool to build cultural pride in the heritage of diverse
communities through the rehabilitation and protection of landmark
properties and their related artifacts. Her undergraduate degree from
Radcliffe College (1970, cum laude) is in art history. Ms. Lutzker has
extensive experience with arts and educational organizations in the
Washington, D.C. area. Ms. Lutzker has also taught the Washington Area
Lawyers for the Arts workshop on starting a nonprofit business.
Both at the National Trust and in private practice, Ms. Lutzker has
taken a lead role in negotiating and documenting complex contractual
matters and in developing creative solutions to transactional problems.
One of her responsibilities at the National Trust was the work-out and
enforcement of defaulted loans in the organization's portfolio.
Ms. Lutzker received her J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law
Center in 1974. |
