Dean is a partner in the litigation and arbitration team.
He focuses on commercial disputes, contract disputes, art law, intellectual property, fiduciary liability, product liability, private company investor disputes, and securities litigation and investigations. Dean also has litigated matters involving mergers and acquisitions, the First Amendment, media, constitutional law, and environmental contamination. He has handled trials and cases in federal and state courts around the United States. In addition, Dean has negotiated and drafted many agreements in art and intellectual property transactions. Dean led the US Dispute Resolution division from July 2015 to June 2022.
The long-running case over appropriation and fair use has been making its way through the U.S. court system since 2017.
Sometimes the Supreme Court will take a decision to clarify law in different areas. There are many different aspects of this case, aside from just clarifying the fair use factors and whether they want to address the extent of transformative use.