HAWTHORNELAW FIRM
Specializing in Music, Intellectual Property and Business Consulting
PRACTICE
AREAS
MUSIC
The music industry is competitive and ever-changing. Whether you are a recording artist, producer, manager, publisher, or label owner, you should understand the terms and implications of every deal presented to you or on your behalf. We can protect your interests through contract preparation, review, and negotiation.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Our brand and creative works deserve protection. Through copyright, trademark, and contract law, we can ensure that you are able to capitalize on your creativity. The first step to reaping the rewards of your hard work is proper registration of your works with the United States Copyright Office and/or United States Patent and Trademark Office.
SMALL BUSINESS CONSULTING
Creative entrepreneurship comes with certain responsibilities, which include determining the structure of your business and how it will operate. Decisions like these are key to your company’s legal, tax, and efficiency objectives. We can ensure that the formation of your business complies with the law and your long-term interests.
OUR VISION
Our mission is to provide comprehensive and transparent legal representation to the creative entrepreneur. To that end, we aim to help our clients make well-informed decisions to achieve their creative and business goals.
We value the significance of our client’s artistic contributions and intend to help optimize those contributions through a streamlined approach to our practice.
ABOUT
Christopher Hawthorne is an Atlanta-based entertainment attorney passionate about the education and empowerment of creatives through strategic and innovative legal representation.
He advises clients on transactional, intellectual property, and other corporate matters. Chris received his Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and received his Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College.