Entertainment

At Hall Booth Smith, we empower creative professionals and businesses with the strategic legal guidance they need to navigate the ever-evolving multimedia entertainment industry.

Overview

From day-to-day business operations and management advice to transactional guidance and dispute resolution, our attorneys help those in the entertainment industry manage talent and preserve, protect and actualize their entertainment property and services. We have critical access to key players in the entertainment industry and provide clients with the business-oriented and dedicated legal advice needed to thrive.

Transactional and litigation attorneys work together seamlessly, handling all of our clients’ legal needs and helping them achieve their goals. Our experience is diverse and includes advising clients regarding music, film, television, software, books and other print media, advertising, and graphic, visual and performing arts, social media and gaming.

Based on our extensive knowledge of these industries and digital media, we negotiate and prepare a wide range of contracts, including recording and publishing agreements, producer agreements, music licenses, talent agreements, television and film production agreements, management agreements, work-for-hire agreements, and appearance and endorsement agreements and litigating disputes. We assure that our clients’ creativity and their rights in creative works are fully protected.

We have a history of involvement in developing funding for films and other creative projects, leveraging its expertise to facilitate financing structures and investment opportunities. Through this work, HBS has received producing credits, demonstrating its active role in the entertainment industry. This experience positions the firm as a valuable partner for investors, production companies, and industry professionals seeking strategic guidance and financial support in film and media ventures.

As active members of various respected industry-leading societies, including NARAS, CMA, we remain at the forefront of industry trends and legal developments. Our attorneys speak regularly on industry panels, contribute as writers to respected industry publications and serve on boards of several industry non-profit organizations.