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TAA Discounted Legal Services

Authors’ Attorney, Michael Lennie, with Lennie Literary Agency & Authors Attorney, offers members a free initial 15-minute phone consultation and a discount of $20 per hour to his hourly rate. A typical contract review costs between $915 and $1,220 and includes a review of the existing or offered contract, and the author’s questions, followed by a detailed telephone conference discussing specific contract clauses. Lennie, who has been involved with TAA since 1987, practices in San Diego, California. Michael Lennie’s entire practice is devoted to representation of authors.

Contact: (858) 272-2248 or email: Michael@LennieLiterary.com


Publishing and copyright lawyer Zick Rubin, who is also a psychology textbook author and a former member of the TAA Council, provides to all TAA members a free introductory email and phone consultation of up to one hour, as well as a 10% discount from his and his associate Brenda Ulrich's regular billing rates for a contract review and/or negotiation or any other initial engagement. Please mention your TAA membership in your initial contact.

Contact: (617) 965-9425 or email: zrubin@zickrubin.com


Intellectual property attorney Stephen Gillen, Wood, Herron & Evans L.L.P., offers members a free 30-minute phone consultation. Gillen serves on the TAA Council and has presented teleconferences and annual conference sessions for TAA on a variety of contract issues.

Contact: (513) 241-2324 ext. 470 or email: sgillen@whepatent.com

Attorney Referrals

CALIFORNIA

Michael Lennie
Lennie Literary Agency & Authors Attorney
E-mail: Michael@LennieLiterary.com
2667 Camino del Rio South
Suite 301-9
San Diego CA 92108
Phone: (858) 272-2248
Fax: (858) 272-2541
Website: http://www.LennieLiterary.com

Michael Lennie’s entire practice is devoted to representation of authors.


CONNECTICUT

Garry A. Berger
Berger Legal LLC
E-mail: garry@bergerlegal.com
58 Olmstead Lane
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: (203) 438-8705
Fax: (203) 431-4383
Website: http://www.bergerlegal.com


GEORGIA

Lisa Moore
The Moore Firm, LLC
Email: Lisa@TheMooreFirm.com
PO Box 8377
Atlanta, GA 31106
Phone: (678) 576-2031
Web Site: www.themoorefirm.com

Lisa Moore offers TAA members a 30-minute phone consultation.

Lisa Moore, principal of her own entertainment and intellectual property practice, The Moore Firm, LLC, lectures around the country on music, film, television, publishing, copyright and new media issues. Lisa currently represents numerous authors, poets, magazines, songwriters, record labels, music producers, bands, screenwriters, galleries, actors, directors, visual artists, performing artists and numerous other entertainment clients on contracts, licensing, copyright, trademark, First Amendment issues and all other legal aspects of the film, television, music and literary publishing businesses. Her practice focuses exclusively on both litigation and transactional entertainment and intellectual property matters. In recognition of her extensive experience in the entertainment industry, she was recently chosen to serve as Editor of Volume 5 of Matthew Bender Entertainment Industry Contracts.


MASSACHUSETTS

Zick Rubin
The Law Office of Zick Rubin
Email: zrubin@zickrubin.com
288 Walnut Street, Suite 230
Newton, MA 02460
Phone: (617) 965-9425 (965-ZICK)
Fax: (617) 965-9426
Web Site: www.zickrubin.com


NEW YORK

John Burleigh
Jacobs deBrauwere LLP
Counselors at Law
E-mail: jfb@jddlaw.com
445 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Phone: (212) 207-8787 
Fax: (212) 207-8727 
Website: http://www.jddlaw.com

Jacobs deBrauwere LLP provides experienced, careful an skilled lawyering by attorneys who offer a caliber of expertise characteristic of a large-firm practice, together with the energy, efficiency, and individualized attention of a small specialty firm.


Frank R. Curtis, Esq.
Rembar & Curtis
Email: fcurtis@remcur.com
P.O. Box 908
Croton Falls, NY 10519
Phone: (914) 276-2920
Fax: (914) 931-3070

Frank R. Curtis is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School and was a founding member of the law firm of Rembar & Curtis. He has focused primarily on publishing law since he began practicing in 1971, handling both contract negotiation and dispute resolution. Many of his clients are trade book authors, but he has also represented the authors of text and professional books, both in negotiating original contracts and in handling transitional situations involving retiring or deceased authors. He is the author of two articles on the termination-of-transfers provisions of the Copyright Act and has handled several important disputes involving the renewal and termination provisions of that Act.


Lloyd J. Jassin
E-mail: Jassin@copylaw.com
1560 Broadway, Suite 400
New York NY 10036
Phone: (212) 354-4442
Fax: (212) 840-1124
Website: http://www.copylaw.com
Blog: http://www.copylaw.org
Twitter: @LloydJassin

Jassin will offer a free, brief consultation for out-of-town authors. He is coauthor of The Copyright Permission & Libel Handbook (Wiley).

PRACTICE AREAS:
• Copyrights
• Digital Rights
• Libel
• Trademarks
• Publishing
• Content
• Intellectual Property
• Entertainment Law


OHIO

Stephen E. Gillen
Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P.
2700 Carew Tower
441 Vine Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-2917
Phone: (513) 241-2324
E-mail: sgillen@whepatent.com

Stephen Gillen offers members a free 30-minute phone consultation. Prior to entering private practice in 1994, Gillen served as house counsel for South-Western Publishing Company (an educational publisher owned by The Thomson Corporation). In addition, Gillen has served on copyright and permissions committees with the Association of American Publishers. He has written and spoken nationally on various publishing and copyright topics and teaches a course in Media Business and Law at the University of Cincinnati and a course in Electronic Media Law at The College Conservatory of Music. He currently serves on the TAA Council, the Board of Trustees of Voyageur Media Group, Inc., and is a member of The Authors Guild. Gillen's practice emphasizes publishing and entertainment transactions and disputes, Internet issues, advertising law, computer law, copyrights, trademarks, technology transfer, trade secrets, and related matters. His clients include several East Coast publishers as well as authors, artists, photographers, videographers, independent producers, Internet service providers, multimedia developers, and software programmers from Maine to California. Gillen is admitted to practice in Ohio and before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.


Michael J. Nath, LPA
5000 Heywood Road
Sandusky, OH 44870-8309
Phone: (419) 609-9207
E-mail: mikenath@bex.net

Michael Nath, J.D. is a practicing attorney in Ohio, specializing in intellectual property law as well as working with authors on publishing contracts. He earned his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and his law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.


TEXAS

Mike Tolleson
E-mail: mike@miketolleson.com
2106 East Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Austin, Texas 78702
Phone: (512) 480-8822
Fax: (512) 479-6212

Mike Tolleson, past chair of the State Bar of Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Section and Director of the Entertainment Law Institute is widely recognized as a leader in the field of entertainment. He has been involved in much of the development of the music and film industries in Texas over a thirty-five year period and works closely with many clients and organizations throughout the entertainment industry.


Literary Agents

If you have had a good experience with a literary agent whom you would like to recommend to other TAA members, tell us about it: TextandAcademicAuthors@taaonline.net

CALIFORNIA

Michael Lennie
Lennie Literary Agency & Authors Attorney
E-mail: michael@lennieliterary.com
2667 Camino del Rio South
Suite 301-9
San Diego CA 92108
Phone: (858) 272-2248
Fax: (858) 272-2541
Website: http://www.lennieliterary.com

Michael Lennie offers TAA members a free, brief telephone consultation. For work beyond the initial consultation, TAA members receive a $20 discount from Lennie's normal hourly charge. A typical contract review costs $1,220. Lennie, who has been involved with TAA since 1985, and serves on the TAA Council, has his practice in San Diego, California. One hundred percent of his practice is representing authors.


KANSAS

Neil Salkind
The Salkind Agency
E-mail: neil@studiob.com
734 Indiana Street
Lawrence, KS 66044
Phone: (913) 538-7113
Fax: (516) 706-2369
Website: www.salkindagency.com (part of StudioB)
Skype: neiljsalkind

The Salkind Agency represents authors who write in the following areas; textbooks, technical and information technology, and general non-fiction. Proposals in all disciplines are welcome. The Salkind Agency authors have published with companies such as Prentice Hall, Wadsworth, McGraw Hill, St. Martins, Wiley, Sage, Springer, Guilford, and others. Please contact Neil Salkind for proposal development guidelines.


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