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LINDA MENSCH ENTERTAINMENT
LAWYER
An entertainment lawyer with vast experience and contacts
in the entertainment business worldwide, Linda Mensch works
with Horizons as a legal representative and co-producer.
Selected by her peers as “An Illinois Super Lawyer”, one of
the “Best Lawyers in America”, and as a “Leading Lawyer”,
Linda is top rated in her field by Chambers and Martindale-Hubbell.
Her clients include television broadcast and production companies,
entertainment content aggregators and suppliers using VOIP
technology, record companies and commercial music production
companies; individual producers, managers, and performing
artists; publishers and authors, as well as technology and
software companies. Since the mid 1990’s, Linda’s practice
has been focused on international intellectual property management
including international syndication, licensing, publishing
and production, as well as the Internet and Digital Rights
Management on the cutting edge of legal representation in
cyber-space. She has performed strategic counseling and has
successful negotiated agreements and transactions domestically
and internationally, working with the Chinese government,
Chinese entertainment producers and international entertainment
companies to distribute educational and film programs in China
during her term as President of China Pop.
Linda is the third generation in her family who has practiced
in the entertainment industry. She is also the past President
of the Chicago Chapter of the Recording Academy and has served
as a National Trustee and National Vice-President of the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. She serves as a board
member of Lawyers for the Creative Arts and has served as
a member and officer of the National Jazz Museum in Chicago.
Academically, Linda has taught Entertainment Law at Columbia
College, in Chicago, at Southern Cross University Law School
in Australia, and has lectured internationally on both Entertainment
Law and International Intellectual Property Management, and
has helped develop the practice and standards for Entertainment
Law in Illinois. She is a graduate of New York University
School of Law, and has practiced entertainment law in New
York and Illinois since 1977. |
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