Judd Grossman is the Founder and Managing Partner of Grossman LLP.  Judd’s clients include high-net-worth individuals, art galleries and advisors, businesses, and institutions in a wide variety of matters, including art-related disputes and commercial cases.  Year after year Judd has been recognized by Chambers as one of the country’s leading litigators in the field of art and cultural property law.  ArtNews recently named him among the country’s Top 75 Art World Professionals.  And he was included among New York’s 2024 Arts & Culture Power 100! as “the top arts attorney” in all of New York.  

• Securing plaintiff’s judgment after a 3-day bench trial in the Southern District of New York, affirmed on appeal by the Second Circuit, in a title dispute seeking the return of a stolen American modernist painting to a major corporate art collection.  See Abbott Laboratories v. Feinberg, et al., 18-cv-8468 (LGS) (S.D.N.Y.).
• Obtaining total victory, affirmed on appeal, in a lawsuit by Madonna against her former art advisor seeking to enjoin sale of a Tupac love letter and other memorabilia.  See Ciccone v. Gotta Have It! Collectibles, Inc., et al., Case No. 156454/2017 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co.).
• Securing summary-judgment ruling on behalf of prominent art collector in a case that the Baer Faxt called "the first major decision to be handed down in the numerous lawsuits stemming from Inigo Philbrick's massive fraud" arising out of an ownership dispute with an art lender over a major Jean-Michel Basquiat painting.  See Athena Art Fin. Corp. v. Certain Artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat Entitled Humidity, 1982, No. 20-cv-04669 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 2, 2024).
• Winning summary judgment on behalf of a prominent Manhattan art gallery in a title dispute concerning an Alexander Calder stabile, see Meaders v. Helwaser, 436 F. Supp. 3d 677 (S.D.N.Y. 2020), and successfully arguing the appeal in the Second Circuit.  See Meaders v. Helwaser, No. 20-730 (2d Cir.).
• Securing complete dismissal for one of the country’s leading art galleries of a lawsuit brought by a billionaire art collector arising out of the $12 million sale of a Gilbert Stuart full-length George Washington portrait. 
• Obtaining summary judgment for Peter Beard, and successfully arguing the appeal in the First Department, in an action to recover three of the artist’s original artworks.  See Beard v. Chase, 56 Misc.3d 1202(A), 63 N.Y.S.3d 304 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co. June 19, 2017).
• Obtaining a complete dismissal of a lawsuit on behalf of a prominent art advisor, affirmed on appeal by the Second Circuit, filed by NBCUniversal executive Ron Meyer arising out of an art deal involving a painting, purportedly by famed abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, that turned out to be a forgery.  See Meyer v. Seidel, et al., 20-cv-03536 (VSB) (S.D.N.Y.).
• Obtaining summary judgment and a unanimous affirmance in the First Department for a collector seeking to reclaim a Marc Chagall painting that had been stolen by a Manhattan art gallery as part of a massive art-fraud scheme.  See Silver v. Alon Zakaim Fine Art Ltd., 180 A.D.3d 467, 115 N.Y.S.3d 669 (1st Dep't 2020).
• Successfully representing buyers defrauded into purchasing stolen Jasper Johns artworks. See Equinox Gallery Ltd. v. Dorfman, 17 Civ. 230 (GBD), 2018 WL 745707 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 25, 2018) (denying motion to dismiss federal RICO and fraud claims); Kolodny v. Meyer, et al., Case No. 14-cv-03354 (VSB) (S.D.N.Y.).  
• Representing International Museum of World War II against Ronald Lauder in connection with claims concerning $25 million collection of World War II memorabilia.
• Securing summary judgment dismissing a former hedge-fund billionaire’s claims that art lender issued a usurious loan collateralized by artwork and a multi-million dollar Harry Winston diamond ring.  Falcone v. BLCE, Index No. 656411/2011 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co. May 24, 2023).
• Representing numerous art collectors and other entities in a series of lawsuits arising from an international art fraud, dubbed by ArtNews as “One of the Biggest Potential Modern Art Scandals.”
• Achieving a total victory for a prominent art collector dismissing all counterclaims in his suit against an art gallery claiming that it knowingly sold him forgeries sourced from a convicted art forger.  See Sobel v. Contra Productions, Index No. 651977/2022 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co. Oct. 5, 2023).
• Defeating motion to dismiss, and then favorably settling the lawsuit, on behalf of Italian art book publisher in contract dispute against photographer James Nachtwey.  See Roberto Koch Editore Srl v. Nachtwey, Index No. 655813/2019 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co.).
• Representing real-estate developers in a litigation involving a major mixed-use high-rise building located in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards. 
• Prosecuting securities-fraud claims on behalf of investors in a $100-million Ponzi scheme. See Nagelberg v. Meli, et al., Case No. 17-cv-2524 (LLS) (S.D.N.Y.).
• Successfully representing more than 10 victims of a massive art-fraud scheme in connection with state and federal civil, bankruptcy, and criminal proceedings.
• Successfully representing national referral agency in a “bet the company” litigation concerning the employment classification of thousands of independent contractors.
• Representing television personality in an employment-discrimination lawsuit against NBC.  See Greenleaf v. NBCUniversal Media, LLC, et al., Index No. 651579/2018 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co.).
• Counseling contemporary art museum concerning major Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition.
• Advising prominent artists’ foundations in connection with catalogue raisonné projects.
• Successfully defending auction house in connection with the sale of forged artwork.
• Litigating art-forgery case against the Knoedler Gallery arising from the $17 million sale of a counterfeit Jackson Pollock painting.
• Representing prominent New York art gallery in a lawsuit against a Carnegie Museum trustee arising from the sale of a Peter Doig painting. 

Judd has consistently been named a New York “Super Lawyer” for Litigation, in addition to consistently being recognized by Chambers as one of the country’s leading litigators in the field of art and cultural property law.  Judd formerly served as the Chair of NYCLA’s Art Law Committee, and he is a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Art Law Committee.  He regularly is invited to speak on art-law topics, including at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the NYU Art Crime Symposium, NYCLA’s Art Law Day, and the International Bar Association annual conference in Rome, Italy.  Judd regularly offers commentary regarding art-law matters on television and in major news publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, artnet, and the Art Newspaper, among many others.

Judd previously was Counsel in the securities-litigation practice group of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, before joining the Dontzin Law Firm LLP, an international litigation boutique.  He graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also received his law degree.  Following law school, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Jerome B. Simandle, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Judd is on the board of Lincoln Center Education, and previously he served on the Board of Directors of Urban Arts Partnership.  He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Meredith, who is an attending physician in the Pediatrics Department of Mount Sinai Hospital, and their two daughters.