A successful music career requires not only creativity and strong musicianship skills but also strategic business planning and navigation through a complex web of legal rights and requirements. Most musicians focus on creating music. However, a successful career also requires strong agreements and navigation of a a sometimes complex maze of intellectual property, business, and financing laws.

Whitman Legal Solutions’ music law practice area provides sound business planning, including entity formation, contract negotiation, and copyright law, and customized legal advice that supports each musician’s unique creative vision.

As a conservatory-trained multi-instrumentalist who has performed with classical, jazz, pop, and Latin groups who also has more than 20 years of experience representing businesses and has completed graduate coursework in music business at the renowned Berklee School of Music, Elizabeth Whitman is uniquely positioned to provide musicians with the customized legal representation and business guidance they need without sacrificing the creative process.

By hiring an attorney who understands both musicians and business, musicians can put their focus where it belongs — on creating music.