In this week’s Legal Beat, workload-overload for music lawyers, Taylor Swift’s new top attorney, a possible break in the Tupac murder case, and much more.
Are music lawyers taking on more work than they can handle? It’s a question that my colleague Elias Leight tried to answer last week in a terrific feature forFor many clients these days, the answer appears to be a resounding yes. “Seems like the standard with all these lawyers is [to] sign a million things you can’t possibly time manage,” vented one artist manager in an Instagram post from fellow manager Dylan Bourne last month.
Jason Berger, a partner at the BigLaw firm Lewis Brisbois, was among those who reached out to Bourne after the post. “He’s right,” Berger said. “Some lawyers abuse that position because of the money that can be made when you’re in such a unique space.
For the full story — including the changes to the industry and the economic incentives that are driving the problem, as well as a look at the legal ethics issues it might pose —
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