Khamal Patterson was admitted to the Maryland Bar in December 2018. Patterson currently serves as a cultural heritage law analyst for ARTIVE. ARTIVE is a cultural heritage database and startup concerned with promoting due diligence in the art market and antiquities trade. He examines controversies and challenges facing vulnerable cultural heritage sites and objects. Patterson’s heritage career began in 2016, interning with Marc Masurovsky and analyzing a bill to preserve claims of Holocaust heirs. During that same year as an intern at Saving Antiquities for Everyone, Patterson engaged experts and senior officials in thoughtful discussions on issues in the antiquities trade. A year later, he was a Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation Fellow. Patterson published interviews with members of LCCHP’s Executive Board of Directors who had litigated major art restitution cases and call for stronger laws and ethical protocols.