Press Release

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – April 1, 2024 – Greenspoon Marder attorneys Sandra Brown, Alan S. Clarke, Jerry Juste, Kendall Minter (posthumously), and Aliya J. Nelson have been named to Billboard’s Top Music Lawyers 2024 List. Billboard Magazine editors annually select a class of attorneys, nominated by their firms and peers, who are essential resources for the music industry’s rising artists, songwriters, and superstars alike.

Ms. Brown focuses on providing strategic business counseling to clients who are award-winning recording artists, music producers, and songwriters in Hip Hop, Pop, Rock, and Christian music, as well as entertainment companies. She negotiates agreements across the complex and often interconnected areas of recorded music, music publishing, live performances, branding, television, and independent film.

Mr. Clarke concentrates his practice of over thirty years on entertainment industry matters, including contract drafting and negotiations, trademark and copyright sales and acquisitions, and corporate law, as well as infringement issues and breach of contract issues. He regularly represents and counsels entertainment companies, athletes, actors, performers, producers, writers, publishers, and artists.

Mr. Juste brings with him a wealth of knowledge from his entertainment and corporate law practice while working at the highest levels of the entertainment industry for nearly 30 years. He has gained most of his experience in senior business affairs positions, working at several of the world’s most iconic record labels on dealings with multi-platinum-selling artists. Mr. Juste currently represents an array of artists, entrepreneurs, executives, and entertainment-related companies of varying sizes for whom he handles sophisticated and complex transactions and serves in a general counsel capacity.

Ms. Nelson brings more than 20 years of experience and a focus on transactional, licensing, and regulatory matters. She has substantial experience in corporate and entertainment law, including representing companies, executives, and talent across the music, film, television, technology, sports, and cannabis industries. Ms. Nelson currently represents a number of artists, songwriters, and producers as well as independent labels, production companies, and agencies.

Greenspoon Marder’s Entertainment & Sports practice group provides multidisciplinary and innovative legal counsel to clients in the entertainment, media, and technology industries across the United States. As trusted advisors to both creatives and businesspeople in the entertainment and sports industries, we counsel clients in entertainment talent negotiations, providing outside general counsel services and assisting companies with corporate structuring, financing, operations, sales and acquisitions, trademarks, copyrights, employment advice, record contracts, music, and book publishing, and we have extensive experience negotiating multi-million-dollar licensing, branding and media deals.

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