I am a music lawyer with a focus on representation of talent. I have represented clients with combined album and single sales of nearly 50 million, including Grammy award-winning legacy acts, contemporary Gold and Platinum-certified artists and songwriters, numerous Billboard-charting and critically-acclaimed up-and-comers, and two Rock & Roll Hall of Famers. I am a Lecturer in the Music Business program at Columbia College Chicago, and a nationally-recognized expert on the music business. I contributed the chapter "Independent Record Labels and Record Deals" to The Musician's Legal and Business Guide (5th edition), a leading music industry resource for over 35 years, published worldwide by Routledge. Prior to practicing law, I founded the world's largest database of music industry-related lawsuits, "The Discography: Legal Encyclopedia of Popular Music," developed in conjunction with Washington University's Center for Empirical Research in the Law.