Volunteer Lawyers For the Arts

About

VLA delivers legal services and educational programming to over ten-thousand visual and performing artists each year. For more information please visit our website at www.vlany.org, or call our Art Law Line at 212.319.2787 ext.1

Mission

Since 1969, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts has been the leading provider of educational and legal services, advocacy and mediation to the arts community. As the first arts-related legal aid organization, VLA is the model for similar organizations around the world.

VLA is supported in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and through generous gifts from law firms, corporations, foundations and individuals.

Products

Legal Services

VLA delivers legal services and information to over 10,000 members of the arts community each year. For more information please call The Art Law Line : 212·319·ARTS (2787), ext.1
http://www.vlany.org/legalservices/
--

Education

VLA plays an important role in educating individual artists, arts professionals within arts and cultural institutions, attorneys, students and the general public about legal and business issues that affect artistic and creative endeavors. For more information, please call Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, Esq., Associate Director of VLA, at 212.319.2787 x13.
http://www.vlany.org/education/
--

MediateArt

MediateArt pairs artists with mediators to mediate or resolve arts-related disputes outside the traditional legal framework. Through MediateArt, qualifying clients may elect to use this service for negotiation counseling as well as contract negotiations.
http://www.vlany.org/mediateart/
--

Advocacy

From its inception, VLA has played an important role as an advocate on behalf of the arts community in different ways, ranging from participation in litigation, making public statements about matters of interest to the arts community, and making recommendations about pending legislation.
http://www.vlany.org/advocacy/