Gili Karev

Gili Karev is a litigator and transactional media attorney at Klaris. She represents publishers, production companies, news organizations, authors and authors’ estates, and individual content creators on a wide range of intellectual property, First Amendment, and media deals and disputes, particularly in the context of new technologies and AI.

Prior to law school, Gili worked in the art market as the Global Curator of Opera Gallery Group and as a specialized provenance researcher advising private collectors, law firms and art dealers with regards to provenance risks of artworks located or lost in Europe during WWII.

Gili graduated summa cum laude with a double bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Chinese from Tel Aviv University; has a law degree from City University of London Law School; and a J.D./LL.M from Columbia Law School as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, where she was also the recipient of the Michael D. Remer Award for copyright law. She is currently an active member of the New York City Bar Association (NYCBA) Copyright and Literary Property Committee and the Copyright Society and a co-chair of the Numerical and Business Information Copyright sub-committee, which studies the ways in which numerical expressions of opinions are protected by copyright.