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Biography

Gary M. Schuster is a Partner at the firm.
His varied practice includes formation, transactions and counseling for corporations, LLCs, partnerships and nonprofits; purchases and sales of businesses; commercial and residential real estate transactions and leasing; franchising; estate planning, administration and litigation; guardianship proceedings; and media, copyright and trademark.

Gary received his B.A. in Government and Journalism from Lehigh University in 1979, and his J.D. from Fordham School of Law in 1988. He is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and was admitted to the Florida bar in 2002.

Gary has assisted in the formation, purchase and sale of all kinds of businesses including medical and veterinary practices, printers and publishers, tech companies, franchises, restaurants, bus companies, liquor stores and beer distributors, gas stations, hair salons, tattoo parlors, and a theater, funeral home, bicycle store, and more.


AREAS OF PRACTICE

Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures
Art & Entertainment
Business Succession
Commercial Leasing
Commercial Real Estate
Copyrights
Dissolution
Estate Administration
Formation & Business Planning
Franchising
Guardianships
Internet
Limited Liability Companies
Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations
Partnerships
Residential Real Estate
Secured Transactions
Television & Film
Trademarks
Transactions
Wills

Gary has extensive experience as both a Board member and attorney representing many kinds of nonprofits including those in economic development, health and human services, arts and culture, education, animal welfare, social clubs, sports, veterans and more. He advises on issues including formation, dissolution, merger, governance, fundraising, compliance, real estate, taxation and tax exemption, transactions, conflict of interest, employment and labor, political activity, loans and finance, trademarks, and other issues. He is currently on the board of the New York Council of Nonprofits (NYCON), The Orange County Citizens Foundation, and the Orange County Arts Council. He is a frequent speaker on nonprofit issues including the major 2014 amendments to the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.

Gary has been a leader in educating the public about New York’s new benefit corporation. His writing about B Corps is found in the Business Law section of the J&G blog.

Gary has extensive experience in music and art, which includes past employment with ASCAP, The Songwriters Guild of America, Dunvagen Music Publishers (owned by the composer, Philip Glass) and Knoedler Publishing (publishers of the artist, LeRoy Neiman). He has represented clients in art, music, film, video, dance, theater, photography, fashion modeling, publishing, the internet, museums and arts centers. He is a founding Board member, past President, and now General Counsel of the Orange County Arts Council. He has represented or advised KingsTheatre Co., Cornerstone Arts Alliance, Trestle, Inc., Newburgh Institute for Arts and Ideas, Newburgh Arts and Culture Commission and others. He was also instrumental in creating the Orange County Film Office.

In the field of intellectual property, Gary has registered and renewed hundreds of copyrights, and registered nearly 100 trademarks.

Gary is also Adjunct Instructor at SUNY Orange in Middletown teaching Music Business.

Gary has written numerous informational articles and blogs that can be found on our blog page.

Gary is from Rego Park, Queens, New York and moved to Orange County with his family in 2002.

Gary presented ‘The Creative Industry’ to the Orange County Chamber of Commerce membership at a breakfast in September 2016. Here is a link to this presentation.

Gary discusses starting a business on the Orange County Chamber of Commerce’s ‘Chamber Chat’ on Wall Radio. It aires on February 4, 2017 at 9AM on 94.1FM, 94.9FM, 105.7FM, 106.1FM and 1340AM.

BAR ADMISSIONS

New York, 1989
Florida, 2002
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1994
U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1994

EDUCATION
Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York
J.D. – 1988
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
B.A. – 1979

PUBLISHED WORKS
The “Rear Window” Case: James Stewart et al. v. Sheldon Abend, Entertainment Law Review, (U.K.) Vol. 1, 1990
Songwriters and Music Publishers: Partners in Rhyme?, Beverly Hills Bar Association Journal, Fall , 1988

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
Artists, Songwriters, Musicians, Performers
Chiropractor, Grocery Store, Liquor Store, etc., and Numerous
Varied Small Businesses Such as Restaurants, Dentists, Veterinarians
Amthor International
Arden Local Development Corporation
Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan
Dispute Resolution Center
Easy-CGI, Web Hosting Service Provider
Elant, Inc.
Evolving Media Network
Kings Theatre Co., Inc.
Knoedler Publishing, Art Publishing
Orange County Arts Council
People’s Bicycle
Photographers, Authors and Filmmakers
Polich-Tallix Foundry
RIJ Pharmaceuticals
Rockland Center for the Arts, Arts Nonprofit
Thornwillow Press, Printing, Engraving and Publishing
Trestle, Inc, Arts Nonprofit
USAI Lighting
Walden Local Development Corporation
Zero to Go

CLASSES/SEMINARS
Copyright in the Classroom, SUNY New Paltz
Intro to Intellectual Property, Dutchess County Bar Association
Nonprofit Revitalization Act, Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan (and elsewhere)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Orange County Arts Council, General Counsel, Former President & Secretary
NYSBA Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section, Member, Copyright and Trademark Committee
Orange County Citizens Foundation, Board Member

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Areas of Law and Practice

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Jurisdictions

• New York

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Employment History

• Partner | Jacobowitz and Gubits

  2005 - 2017

  Currentl employed at J&G for 12 years

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Education

• No Information

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Publications and Presentations

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