Practice Profile: Luke is a leading commercial litigator with extensive experience representing clients in complex disputes. Recently, he was named to Lawdragon's 2018 list of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America, Benchmark Litigation's “Under 40 Hot List,” and the New York Super Lawyers list. A prominent art publication called him one of the most “highly influential” art lawyers in the world after he led the defense in a forgery case dubbed by ArtNews as “The Art Trial of the Century.” Luke's clients include Fortune 100 companies; large private companies and their executives; prominent art galleries, foundations, and collectors and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists. Among other recent victories, he prevailed at trial in a multi-million dollar dispute between two managing partners of a significant New York City law firm, recovered priceless works of art by Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso, obtained the dismissal of a $400 million class action against a New York City real estate firm and won an appeal in the New York State Court of Appeals on behalf of workers who cleaned up downtown Manhattan after 9-11.

Prior Experience: Boies Schiller Flexner, partner; Cahill Gordon & Reindel, associate; law clerk to William J. Holloway, Jr, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Leadership, Pro Bono and Civic Work: Luke was recently was part of a small working group that created an international arbitration court called the Court of Arbitration for Art, which will be seated in the Hague.

Education:

Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude)

State University of New York at Albany (B.A., summa cum laude, Philosophy)

Phi Beta Kappa

Presidential Scholar