Lawyer 4 Musicians is actually Josh Kaplan from the firm of Troglia Kaplan, LLC located in Chicago, Illinois.  Josh is a dedicated attorney that has a connection to music.  He uses his 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 Josh.

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:  jkaplan@tkhlaw.com

Eddie Sanders is an experienced intellectual property attorney and artist manager. This combination of practices, allows him to provide effective and creative solutions for his entertainment clients. His clients include recording artists, songwriters, record companies, music publishers, literary authors, record producers and other companies in the entertainment industry. His main mission as a lawyer is the protection and education of his clients in this ever changing landscape. He works with a passion for creativity and a joy of turning ideas into legitimate businesses.

Eddie is a native Chicagoan, a 2004 graduate of Virginia State University and 2008 graduate of John Marshall Law School where he received a J.D. In 2014; Eddie launched an indie label in Chicago, Freshly Baked Records, focused on providing unsigned artists with major label distribution channels. In his free time, Eddie enjoys deejaying at your favorite nightclub or finding something horrible to watch on Netflix.