“It’s extremely rewarding that the real value of music industry, the artist and the artist’s brand, is finally being realized,” says John Frankenheimer, chair of music industry at Loeb & Loeb, one of the most respected senior attorneys in the music business. Richard Baskin of Simons Muirhead Burton in London adds that amid “significant opportunity within the creative industries… comes the concern around regulating and managing this growth on behalf of all.”
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Meanwhile, the rapid expansion of digital opportunities have become so important to the role of these music lawyers that some may wish they had supplemented their law degrees with studies in computer science.īut as Ken Doroshow, chief legal officer for the RIAA, says, “In a time of constant innovation and a steady stream of ‘next big things,’ it’s more important than ever that all platforms and services that use and profit from music obtain the necessary licenses and pay rights holders and creators for their work.” Doroshow’s counterparts at the National Music Publishers’ Association are on the front lines of efforts to get digital platforms to properly license their use of music. Several attorneys have been involved in efforts to ban the use of rap lyrics in criminal prosecutions, and L. Londell McMillan, whose clients include Prince’s heirs and the Westmore collective of Snoop Dogg, E-40, Too $hort and Ice Cube, says: “There should be more senior Black executives in C-suites and more Black-owned companies doing business with global enterprises.” For those steeped in the law, the issue of racial equity and justice in the music industry, which exploded into awareness with the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, remains no less urgent.
In the past year, their behind-the-scenes work grabbed headlines with major publishing and catalog deals, live-performance agreements, a defamation case, a conservatorship battle and one very, very large initial public offering.Īmong many other matters, attorneys on this list were involved with Neil Diamond’s sale of his publishing and master recording catalog Dr. Dre’s performance with a who’s who of hip-hop during the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI halftime show Cardi B’s successful verdict in a defamation claim Britney Spears’ release from a conservatorship that controlled her life for 13 years and Universal Music Group’s massive September stock offering on the Euronext Amsterdam exchange.įor this year’s Top Music Lawyers report, Billboard asked attorneys not only about their clients and achievements but also their top concerns for the music business.
When music meets money, industry attorneys usually serve as matchmakers.īillboard’s 2022 class of Top Music Lawyers - nominated by their firms and peers and chosen by our editors - are cast in more complex and challenging roles than ever.
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