A boutique firm with big firm roots, Bridge Law is uniquely positioned to bring clients in business and the arts superior legal services in three major areas of practice: art law, advocacy, and alternative dispute resolution. With practice experience spanning twenty years, Bridge Law’s founder, Denise M. Alter, has successfully represented entities and organizations from Fortune 500 companies to Kunsthallen.


Passionate about art and the business of art, Bridge Law leverages expertise in art history, the art market, and arts management in its practice of law to offer a full range of legal services to museums, non-profit organizations, collectors, artists, galleries, and auction houses. Bridge Law will repatriate lost art and advocate disputes in the art market.


Bridge Law knows what it takes to successfully advocate complex business disputes through trial; providing legal resourcefulness, expert assimilation of complex business and technical information, and strategic case management at reasonable rates. Personal service and client satisfaction is Bridge Law’s mission.


Experienced in all forms of alternative dispute resolution, and with success in pre-litigation early settlement, Ms. Alter can serve as a neutral, party arbitrator, or advocate in arbitration, and evaluate or mediate settlements of legal disputes and litigation.