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STEPHANIE FURGANG ADWAR is a founding partner of Furgang & Adwar, L.L.P. She concentrates her practice in entertainment, trademark, and copyright law. She is a graduate of Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and New York University - Tisch School of Arts, Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television. Ms. Adwar began her career in entertainment by working for The Gersh Agency, N.Y., Inc., for DeLaurentiis Entertainment, and for CBS/Fox Video in New York. She went on to produce music videos for Time Shift Video in New York. Ms. Adwar represents a wide variety of clients in the entertainment field, including musicians, independent record labels, music publishing companies, independent film productions, screenwriters, producers, actors, comedians, authors, and performing artists. She regularly lectures on entertainment law at NYU - Tisch School of Arts, Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television and on entertainment, copyright and trademark law at The Learning Annex. She has also lectured at the 92nd Street Y, for the American Bar Association - Forum on Entertainment and Sports Law, at CMJ, at Diversafest Music Festival and elsewhere. Ms. Adwar has been quoted in the news media as an expert in entertainment, copyright and trademark law and she authored "Trademarks: What's In a Name," Hemp World, Winter 1996, Vol. 2 Issue 3 and has been quoted in numerous publications on the subject of copyright and entertainment law.

Ms. Adwar is a Governing Board Member of the American Bar Association - Forum on Entertainment and Sports Law where she serves as Membership Chair. She is also a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the New York State Bar Association (member Entertainment and Sports Law Committee and Intellectual Property section). Ms. Adwar is a member of the prestigious New York Women in Film and Television, serves on the Board of Directors for The Colleagues Theatre Company, a not-for-profit theater group, is a member of the American Film Institute and served on the Benefit Committee of the Newport International Film Festival.