Lawyer 4 Musicians are actually two bright gentlemen from the firm of Troglia Kaplan Holzman located in Chicago, Illinois. Both of us are dedicated attorneys that have a connection to music. We use our unique experience and legal knowledge to help musicians, music based businesses and creative types navigate their way through an ever changing industry. Here’s a little bit of info on each of the L4M’s.
Josh Kaplan is the founder of L4M. Josh often acts as a left brain guide to right brain thinkers in his effort to get the struggling artist to stop struggling quite so much and to treat his/her art as a business.
Josh is a business lawyer at TKHlaw.com who focuses on music, entertainment and intellectual property law. Josh regularly works with musicians, producers, djs, artists, film makers, writers and designers to protect their work product through entity formation, contract negotiations, license agreements, and copyright and trademark registration. Josh has negotiated on behalf of his clients to place their music in movies, television shows, video games, commercials, webcasts and compilations with other artists. In addition, Josh has extensive experience assisting film makers and musicians in their quest for private funding for their film and music projects. Josh regularly negotiates and drafts private placement offerings and all corresponding documents including operating agreements and subscription agreements.
Josh is a Minneapolis, Minnesota native, a 1998 graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison and a 2002 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law where he received a J.D. and a certificate in Intellectual Property Law. While Josh played a mean recorder and a decent chop sticks as a kid, his musical prowess now rests with his guitar hero skills and excellent robot dance.
Here’s a really nice interview/article that sums up this site and Josh: AmLaw Daily.
Contact Josh at: Josh@lawyer4musicians.com
In practicing law, Ajay Gosain views his dealings through the eyes of an artist and a businessman. Prior to practicing law, Ajay was a musician and worked in the music industry. His band toured, played festivals including SXSW and CMJ, had songs placed on several compilation albums and released two full length albums. In addition to recording and performing, Ajay worked at an indie distributor and at several record labels. Additionally, he worked as an artist manager, a radio promoter and a label manager. Eventually, he owned and operated his own record label. During law school he managed the Metro nightclub in Chicago.
In his law practice, Ajay focuses on intellectual property and regularly works with bands, artists, photographers, painters and writers. He negotiates deals and licenses on behalf of his clients and protects their works through copyright and trademarks. Ajay has negotiated and licensed several songs for placement in television, movies and video games. He counsels his clients on the intricacies of the entertainment industry and assists artists in realizing their goals.
Ajay was born and raised in Chicago where he currently resides. He earned his J.D. from John Marshall Law School in 2005. In addition to the practice of law, Ajay is an adjunct faculty member of Columbia College Chicago teaching Music Publishing. He also occasionally still manages the Metro.
Contact Ajay at: ajay@lawyer4musicians.com
Nice new site man! Keep it up, it looks great. I’ll have to drag you out for a beer after work soon so you can explain how all of this works.
Carlin
Great Info!! Thanks for sharing.
You hit the nail right on the head – this is exactly what musicians need. I am in Austin researching shows for today and tomorrow and found your site – I am also a Chicago-based attorney with a lot of musician friends. Let’s network.
Hmm interesting site. I will call again.
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Josh, great website and hopefully we’ll get a chance to work with one another… my best… MSr