The Law Firm for Creative Businesses
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Our Purpose
Our goal is to reinvent the law firm experience for creative businesses of all sizes. By combining the best in technology with world-class legal advice, we help you use the law to your advantage in a way that is affordable and accessible. We are recognized innovators and we want to help you grow and protect your venture.
We work with: freelancers, app developers, filmmakers, podcasters, consultants, authors, architects, designers, models, visual effects studios, restaurateurs, photographers, entrepreneurs and anyone else who wants to make something new happen.
Our Process
step 1
Talk to us
By knowing where you’re headed, we can help you make a plan to get there.
step 2
Create a plan
We can help you understand the legal issues involved with starting and growing your business.
step 3
Choose a service
Learn more about the services that we offer and decide where you wish to begin.
step 4
Get to work
Work with us to build your solid legal foundation – without the stress.
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There are so many unknowns when buying and selling real estate that having a top-notch legal team on my side to protect me is essential. There is literally no way I could do the business I do without my relationship with Counsel for Creators.
From the Blog
The Three Elements of Brand Protection
If you have a business, brand protection is a MUST. But what is brand protection? I mean in a legal sense? Most people think that brand protection begins and ends with a trademark registration. While a trademark registration is a super-important part of any business'...
Client Profile: Doggie Drawings
Learn what advice Lili Chin from Doggie Drawings gives to up-and-coming creative businesses and why she protected her work legally.
Content Marketing Legal Issues
Content marketing legal issues can derail an otherwise well-executed content marketing plan. That's why anybody planning to engage in content marketing as part of their business should learn how to steer clear of easily-avoidable but potentially-painful legal hazards....
Client Profile: Tradecraft
Meet our client, Lyndsay Siegel, founder of Los Angeles home renovation company Tradecraft. If you pass through LA’s neighborhoods you may see her hard at work on a new property. We wanted to hear from Lyndsay what it takes to build a business and why she chose to...
Client Profile: BEMO
This August we would like to feature local Silver Lake creative boutique BEMO as our client of the month. BEMO specializes in VFX, animation, and live action film for clients including major brands in the tech and entertainment industries. Their design-driven approach...
Thoughts on Guatemalan Artisans and Copyright
Last week the blog Fashionista wrote an article about Guatemalan artisans and copyright. The gist is that they plan to assert copyright claims against Etsy sellers (among others) for infringing upon their designs. Since a lot of people sent it my way, I wanted to take...