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.
Listed skills include Intellectual Property, Legal Research, Licensing, Entertainment Law, and 12 others.