Senior Counsel Joins Shook to Expand Art Law Practice

Shook welcomes Senior Counsel Channah Norman as the co-chair of the firm’s growing Art Law Practice alongside Alicia Donahue and Tristan Duncan. With eight years as museum general counsel and seven years as an appellate litigator, Norman will advise clients nationally from Shook’s Washington, D.C. and New York locations. 

The firm’s Art Law Practice provides legal counsel to museums, dealers, collectors, financial institutions and insurers—among others—on issues related to repatriation and restitution, copyright status, infringement claims, and disputes arising from authenticity concerns, sales agreements and contracts, and insurance coverage. The group will also advise clients on the use of artificial intelligence to generate new works or designs.

“Shook already has a long history of working with key stakeholders in the art market,” said Norman. “I’m pleased to expand the services the firm can offer clients who have questions around the sale and transfer of art, copyright disputes and the repatriation of cultural works.” 

Norman previously served as Chief Counsel for the U.S. Army Center of Military History, where she provided strategic advice and legal counsel for the National Museum of the U.S. Army and 46 subsidiary Army museums, as well as the Army Artifact Collection. She currently serves as a faculty member of the Museum Studies Master’s Degree Program at George Washington University.