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Jane Levine: This is the last panel of the day, and I should first thank all of you for coming and especially for staying until the end of the day. This is going to be a roundtable panel. I am hoping to engage the panelists in a discussion rather than sequential presentations. I am Jane Levine and I am currently the Director of Compliance at Sotheby’s. Before I came to Sotheby’s, I was at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, where I worked on a lot of different kinds of art crime matters, including forgery cases. I have the pleasure of having this great panel of lawyers talk about some of the issues we’ve touched on today and some new ones. I am going to introduce them now. To my immediate left is Jo Laird who is now of counsel at Patterson Belknap. Jo has a varied practice in all kinds of art law matters, representing collectors, museums, galleries and dealers. She was, prior to joining Patterson Belknap, the General Counsel of Christie’s, Inc., which is how I first met her because in my previous job at the U.S. Attorney’s office we had a lot of dealings with one another. So, I know Jo to be an expert on many matters of art law. She is also a Columbia Law School graduate-so we are really happy to have her here. To her left is Michael Salzman who is the co-head of the art law practice at Hughes Hubbard & Reed and also known to many of you in the room as an art lawyer with a lot of experience in a lot of different cases. Last is Donn Zaretsky, who is actually an alumni of Paul, Weiss-another thing we have in common-but now with John Silberman Associates where he has an art law and entertainment practice. Donn represents a lot of artists and I am hoping that that is one perspective we can bring out today. In addition, Donn is the author of the Art Law Blog, which-if you are not familiar with it-you should check out. It is a really wonderful blog and resource and worth reading.