Gary M. Schuster, Senior Counsel at Jacobowitz & Gubits, LLP, was re-elected to a third term as a director of the Orange County Arts Council on February 9, 2011. He was also appointed to the new position of General Counsel. One of the founding directors of the 4-year-old nonprofit corporation, Mr. Schuster previously served as Secretary and President.
Mr. Schuster has been with Jacobowitz & Gubits since 2004. His varied practice includes business formations and transactions, nonprofit formations and transactions, franchising, estate planning and litigation, commercial and residential real estate transactions, and guardianship proceedings. Mr. Schuster also has extensive experience in the arts and entertainment 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 many clients in the arts, entertainment and publishing, and frequently lectures on copyright, trademark, contracts and licensing.
