| trial advocacy from the first list and Intellectual property from the second. I'd also want to take Contracts and More Contracts and negotiations.
My brother was a labor lawyer and now teaches same at a University. He deals mostly with employees needing to fight the Big Corporation (in things like wrongful termination and sexual harrassment type cases), rather than the typical issues musicians face.
I'm a musician, and a working musican would need someone to draft standard contracts for hir to use for gigs, hiring other musicians, drawing up partnership-type agreements for band memebers, negotiating with record companies, interpreting recording contracts, and getting venue owners to pay for performances if they tried to stiff me. |
