An attorney who warned against what she says was an art gallery’s wrongful assertion of copyright has cleared a hurdle on her claim she was defamed when a gallery trustee, a fellow lawyer, denigrated her legal advice.
Kerry Connolly, of Manhattan, claims her reputation as an attorney was damaged when Lelia Martin Wood-Smith complained that Connolly’s advice that artists retain the copyright in their sold works was incorrect and cost the trust overseeing the Allan Stone Gallery “hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
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