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Welcome to Leavens, Strand, Glover, & Adler LLC |
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Welcome to Leavens, Strand, Glover & Adler, LLC, an entertainment, media, & intellectual property law firm concentrating our practice on matters involving creative industries and endeavors. Our clients include content providers and creators, media companies, television and radio broadcasters, authors, songwriters, recording artists, musicians, advertisers and brands, television and film writers, independent record labels, distributors, independent film producers and documentarians, web site operators and developers, publishing companies, and film, television and music production companies.
We represent both institutional and talent clients in a wide variety of transactional and litigation matters, including complex contractual negotiations and other strategic transactions, and help craft favorable outcomes to difficult problems. Our attorneys have broad and varied experiences, including large national firms and broadcaster and public company general counsel positions, and we take as the hallmark of our practice personalized attention, judgment, experience, expertise, and community service.
LSGA IN THE NEWS! |
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GLOVER NAMED TOP ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER; LSGA NAMED A BEST ENTERTAINMENT LAW FIRM |
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Partner Jerry Glover has been named a top entertainment lawyer in Chicago by Best Lawyers Magazine, 2012 edition. Mr. Glover was one of only two lawyers named in that category. Leavens, Strand, Glover & Adler was also named one of the top entertainment law firms in Chicago by that same magazine. Peter Strand, Tom Leavens have been highlighted as "best lawyers" in the specialties of music and film, and Jerry Glover is listed as a "best lawyer" in film.
The honors are listed on page 14 of the magazine http://www.bestlawyers.com/Issuu/Viewer.aspx?pub_id=8
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STRAND RE-ELECTED TO NATIONAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE RECORDING ACADEMY |
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LSGA Partner Peter Strand has been re-elected to the National Board of Trustees of the Recording Academy for a second term. The Board of Trustees is the governing body of the Recording Academy (the Grammy organization). Peter represents the Chicago Chapter and will serve for a second 2 year term on the Trustee Board. He has also served as Chicago Chapter President and Vice President and as a Chicago Chapter Governor. He is a voting member of the Recording Academy and regularly attends the Grammy Awards show.
Peter has also been invited to participate in Grammy on the Hill, the Recording Academy’s annual artists’ rights program in Washington D.C. He will attend the Awards Ceremony on April 25 which will honor Congressman Howard Berman for his support of music rights and artist John Mayer for his philanthropic work. On April 26, he will join hundreds of Recording Academy members who volunteer to go “on the Hill” to lobby Congress for pro-music policy and to protect the rights of creators. |
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Tom Leavens to Present at Chicago Bar Association 4/5 Seminar on Legal Issues With Music Festivals |
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LSGA's Tom Leavens will participate in an April 5 seminar at the Chicago Bar Association. The seminar, titled "Legal Issues With Music Festivals," will examine legal issues with music festivals like Lollapoolza, Summerfest, Pitchfork and the numerous neighbor fests which occur around Chicago. Leavens' presentation will be about "Legal Issues with Proceeds" referring to the content of the festivals, such as the performances, activities, and anything else that goes on that could be exploited apart from the event site, such as streaming, recordings, photographs, etc. Click HERE to learn more and register for the seminar. |
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Partner Tom Leavens to Speak at Utah Lawyers for the Arts Spring Art and the Law series, March 24, 2012 |
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LSGA, LLC partner Thomas Leavens will be presenting "Music and the Law" at the Utah Lawyers for the Arts Spring Art and the Law series on March 24, 2012. His presentation will cover what you need to know to succeed in the business of music by protecting your rights and understanding industry practices and terms, including how publishing works, how to negotiate recording, agency, performance, distribution, licensing and management agreements, and how to make the most of new technologies and business models. Click HERE to RSVP to the workshop. |
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