Howard Spiegler

Practice Areas

Howard has been involved in several of the best-known and most important litigations brought on behalf of foreign governments and heirs of Holocaust victims and others to recover stolen artwork or other cultural property.

Howard also handles all types of art transactions, including counseling clients on international trade issues, loans, museum and private exhibitions, organizing and structuring business entities, trust and estate matters, insurance issues and other matters.

Howard has published widely on art law and related issues. He also has had numerous speaking engagements at various universities and law schools throughout the country, including Columbia, Harvard, New York University and Yale, and throughout the world for the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), and other organizations and bar associations, art fairs, museums, auction houses and appraisers.

Among other accolades, Howard has received the Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Defense of Art from the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art (ARCA) and the Prix Monique Raynaud-Contaminé from the Union international des Avocats (UIA). He has served as an officer for at bar associations in the United States and abroad.