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Welcome to Leavens, Strand & Glover, LLC |
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Welcome to Leavens, Strand & Glover, 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.
LSG IN THE NEWS!
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Leavens, Strand & Glover Attorneys Present “Theater Law 101” Workshop At “Chicago Theater (anti-) Conference” |
 Thomas Leavens and Jerry Glover (at right), partners in Leavens, Strand & Glover, LLC, were among four entertainment and intellectual property attorneys who spoke at Chicago Theater (anti-) Conference on Sunday, August 22 at Theatre Wit on Chicago’s north side. Marci Rolnik (center), legal director of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, moderated the discussion, which also included panelists (at left) Alan Salzenstein, a law professor at DePaul University, and Jeffrey Marks, an intellectual property attorney in private practice. The two-day conference, for representatives of young theater arts organizations, included presentations on the legal, marketing and fundraising issues facing Chicago theaters. |
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TOM LEAVENS FEATURED ON CHICAGO BUSINESS |
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Attorney Tom Leavens On Billboard, Mojo and "The Farmer's Daughter"
In his Loop offices, attorney Tom Leavens keeps a vintage Columbia Grafonola, now playing a swing-era platter by jazz alto saxophonist Jimmie Lunceford. Mr. Leavens, 62, is a partner in the entertainment, media and intellectual property law firm of Leavens Strand & Glover LLC. On the charts:
Music magazines Billboard and Mojo. The first is business-oriented, “information about alliances between companies, who is being distributed by which company, legal cases and people on the move.” The second is “more legacy-directed, overviews of the Beatles, Dylan; great information and graphics.”
For industry news online, Digital Music News and TVWeek's TVBizwire blog. For “state-of-the-world” news, Chicago Tribune and WBEZ-FM/91.5. “I went to a taping of (NPR's) "Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!' I enjoy how well it's written and the repartee between host and guests.”
“Oxford American,” John Grisham's quarterly literary publication, “has great writing that celebrates the Southern food, music and folk tradition I love.”
Listens to the “rich gumbo” of New Orleans' music scene at WWOZ-FM/90.7 online at www.wwoz.org. “They have a great mix of jazz, blues, gospel, zydeco.”
Explores etymology with dozens of books and four online newsletters that send him a word of the day. “The most playful, informative one” is www.alphadictionary.com, which recently offered “petrichor”: the scent of rain on dry earth.
Toggles between homes in Evanston and Utah, where his wife and two daughters live. En route, reads “everything by Jim Harrison, a male-oriented writer with a robust appreciation for eating, drinking, sex, outdoor adventure and humor.” Most recently: “The Farmer's Daughter.” |
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Leavens, Strand & Glover, LLC Listed as “Leading Firm” in Chambers USA 2010 Legal Ranking Guide |
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Chambers USA, a volume that ranks the leading firms and lawyers for business in America, has listed LSG Legal as a Leading Firm in the Illinois Media & Entertainment section of the quintessential guide.
The Chambers website describes its rankings process: “Chambers USA ranks the leading firms and lawyers in an extensive range of practice areas throughout America. The research is in-depth and client focused and the guide is read by industry-leading companies and organizations throughout the US and worldwide. It is also widely used by firms in all states for referral purposes.”
Leavens, Strand & Glover’s listing reads as follows:
This firm was created in 2009 by the experienced and esteemed media lawyers Jerry Glover, Peter Strand and Thomas Leavens. It is already establishing itself as one of the premier media boutiques in Chicago. KEY INDIVIDUALS: Focusing on the television sector, Jerry Glover is “articulate, smart and a delight to work with.” Peter Strand is “a great music and recording lawyer.”
Strand and Glover were also listed in what Chambers calls “Band 1” under a separate block called Leading Individuals. Again, per the Chambers website, “law firms and individual lawyers are ranked in bands from 1-6, with 1 being the best.”
Leavens, Strand & Glover, LLC is pleased to be so highly recognized by this ranking resource. |
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