STEPHANIE FURGANG ADWAR is a founding partner of Furgang & Adwar, L.L.P. She concentrates her practice in entertainment, trademark, and copyright law. She is a graduate (Juris Doctor) of Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (January, 1991). She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (1987) in Film and Television Production from New York University - Tisch School of Arts, Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.

Ms. Adwar began her career in entertainment by working for The Gersh Agency, N.Y., Inc., for DeLaurentiis Entertainment, and for CBS/Fox Video in New York. She went on to produce music videos for Time Shift Video in New York. Ms. Adwar represents a wide variety of clients in the entertainment field, including independent film productions, screenwriters, producers, actors, comedians, authors, performing artists, musicians, independent record labels, music publishing companies, and television production companies.

Ms. Adwar is admitted to practice before the Courts of the State of New York (1991),the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (1993), and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (2001). She has been admitted pro hac vice (for a particular case) in the Federal District Court of California. Reported cases: Sparaco v. Lawler, Matusky & Skelly Eng'rs LLP, 303 F.3d 460 (2d Cir., 2003); and Alpha Int'l, Inc. v. T-Reproductions, Inc., 02 Civ. 9586 (SAS), 2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11224 (S.D.N.Y.)

Ms. Adwar lectures regularly on entertainment law at New York University - Tisch School of Arts, Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television and on entertainment, copyright and trademark law at The Learning Annex. She has also lectured at the 92nd Street Y, for the American Bar Association - Forum on Entertainment and Sports Law, at CMJ, at Diversafest Music Festival, at Howard University Law School and elsewhere. She has also directed the Continuing Legal Education program for the Cutting Edge Music Festival in New Orleans. Ms. Adwar has been quoted in the news media and in numerous publications as an expert in entertainment, copyright and trademark law. She has also judged NYU's Mobil Awards for excellence in film production and acts a moot court judge for Cardozo Law School in the BMI Moot Court Competition. She authored "Trademarks: What's In a Name," Hemp World, Winter 1996, Vol. 2 Issue 3.

Ms. Adwar has served as a Governing Board Member of the American Bar Association - Forum on Entertainment and Sports Law as its Sponsorship Chair and then as its Membership Chair. She is also a member of the International Trademark Association, the New York State Bar Association (member Entertainment and Sports Law Committee and Intellectual Property section), and the Rockland County Bar Association. Ms. Adwar is a member of the prestigious New York Women in Film and Television, is a member of The Recording Academy, serves on the Board of Directors for The Colleagues Theatre Company, a not-for-profit theater group, and is a member of the American Film Institute. Stephanie has the honor of serving on the Advisory Board of the International Music Festival Conference (IMFCON) and as a panelist for the leading provider of international music contests, We Are Listening (wearelistening.org).

Ms. Adwar has received an "AV" peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory (the highest rating) and is listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.