Ken Bernhard to Teach Iraqi Museum Curators About Copyright and Contract Law

Bridgeport, CT, August 6, 2007 - G. Kenneth Bernhard, principal at Cohen and Wolf, P.C., will be teaching a week-long seminar on copyright and contract law to the directors of Iraqi museums in Amman, Jordan later this month. The legal issues seminar is part of a three week seminar/workshop in which eight directors, representing museums from across Iraq, will participate from August 5 - August 25 at the United Nations headquarters in Amman.

"I am excited and honored to help the Iraqi people re-establish their cultural identity in a peaceful way," said Mr. Bernhard, a resident of Westport, CT. "The museums and the treasures they preserve can play an important role in re-establishing normalcy in a country beleaguered by war."

The workshop was created to introduce directors of museums in Iraq to management techniques meeting the highest international standards, to continue to reintegrate the museums in Iraq into the international museum community, and to assure the museum community in Iraq that, in spite of the current economic and political crisis in Iraq, their continued participation in the international museum community is necessary and welcomed by that community.

The seminar has been organized under the auspices of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in cooperation with the Iraqi Ministry of Culture. The seminar is being funded in part by a grant (Funds in Trust arrangement with UNESCO) by the Norwegian government.

Mr. Bernhard was invited to teach by Stuart Gibson, a senior U.N. international expert, who will join him in teaching the workshop. Mr. Gibson, a resident of Weston, CT, is expert on the management and financing of cultural organizations and the culture sector, primarily focusing on countries experiencing economic and political crisis - including the former Soviet Union, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

At Cohen and Wolf, Mr. Bernhard represents municipalities, individuals and businesses in a wide range of legal matters, including all types of litigation, real estate, family law, trusts & estates and commercial matters.

Mr. Bernhard is very active in state and local matters. He was Westport's former Legislative State Representative and served as Westport's Third Selectman and as Town Attorney. He presently serves as town attorney for the Towns of Wilton (since 1992) and Weston (since 2000). In 2005, he was appointed by Governor Rell to sit on the Judicial Review Council. Last year, he was appointed to be a senior attorney with the Center of International Legal Studies located in Salzburg, Austria. In this capacity, he taught a public law course to law students at Neophyte Rilski University in Sofia, Bulgaria

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