Rock on With Your Bad Self: Ethics for Music Lawyers

September 11, 2025

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Today’s music industry creates a range of ethical challenges for music lawyers, from navigating potential fee disputes to representing a band vs. its individual members, wearing multiple business hats, attorney advertising activities, including the use of social media, navigating difficult client relationships and terminating representation, digital privacy, and more.

Of Counsel Hillel Frankel (Nashville) will co-present “Rock on With Your Bad Self: Ethics for Music Lawyers” at Americanafest in Nashville, TN, on September 11, 2025. While regulations vary from state to state, certain key principles apply across multiple jurisdictions. This panel is intended for lawyers, but will also be helpful for other professionals, offering a glimpse of best practices for staying on the right side of the law.

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