Shutting Down a Conservation Practice: Legal Issues
Includes a Live Web Event on 09/17/2026 at 1:00 PM (EDT)
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Shutting down a private practice is a topic that all conservation professionals will face, whether we are shifting to employment with an institution, scaling back to make room for life issues that pull on our time or simply retiring at the end of a long career. Some of us have small practices that are just us and our workbenches and some of us have obligations to employees and landlords. For all of us, the questions surrounding how to gracefully and responsibly shut down our businesses can be complicated.
The first webinar in the series will focus on legal issues surrounding the disposal of our business entities as well as our property. We are pleased to have as our speaker Karl Means, an attorney in the Washington, DC, area who specializes in this area and is a member of the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (WALA).
This webinar is free to AIC members.
Karl Means
Counsel
Miles & Stockbridge, P.C.
Karl Means is of counsel at Miles & Stockbridge, P.C., and has been practicing corporate, intellectual property and international trade law for over 30 years. His career started at the U. S. Customs Service where he was a senior intellectual property attorney enforcing border rights against counterfeit products. After that, Karl spent over 10 years with a mid-size DC-area law firm where he practiced licensing and corporate law as head of the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Currently, Karl’s clients at Miles & Stockbridge range from start-ups to multinational corporations, addressing issues as diverse as business management, intellectual property enforcement, cross-border licensing, tariffs, and Customs issues. He is also on the Board of Directors at the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (WALA) and regularly leads seminars on entity formation and contracts as part of the WALA Creative Entrepreneurs seminar series.
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