Thomas R. Kline

Partner, Andrews Kurth LLP

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Thomas R. Kline, partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Andrews Kurth LLP, has since 1989 represented governments, museums, churches, foundations, and families, including Holocaust survivors and heirs, in recovering stolen art appearing in the United States. He also represents an American museum and U.S. collectors in responding to claims and generally handles a wide variety of art and cultural property litigation and advice matters. Mr. Kline serves on the Board of the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation, co-teaches a seminar on Cultural Property at the George Washington University, Museum Studies Program, and writes and speaks frequently on art, museum and cultural property issues including serving on the Advisory Board of the German/English publication Kunst und Recht (Art and Law) and appearing in 1999 before the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States. For his work on behalf of German cultural institutions, Mr. Kline was awarded the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.