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Free Consultation

TAA offers members a free, brief telephone consultation with textbook contract lawyer Michael Lennie.

From California, call (858) 456-0138 or email michael@lennieliterary.com

For work beyond the initial consultation, TAA members receive a $20 discount from Lennie's normal hourly charge. A typical contract review costs $1,220. Lennie, who has been involved with TAA since 1985, has his practice in La Jolla, California. One hundred percent of his practice is representing authors.

Literary Agents

If you have had a good experience with a literary agent whom you would like to recommend to other TAA members, tell us about it: TextandAcademicAuthors@taaonline.net

KANSAS

Neil Salkind
The Salkind Agency
E-mail: neil@studiob.com
734 Indiana Street
Lawrence, KS 66044
Tel. (913) 538-7113
Fax (516) 706-2369
Website: www.salkindagency.com (part of StudioB)
Skype: neiljsalkind


The Salkind Agency represents authors who write in the following areas; textbooks, technical and information technology, and general non-fiction. Proposals in all disciplines are welcome. The Salkind Agency authors have published with companies such as Prentice Hall, Wadsworth, McGraw Hill, St. Martins, Wiley, Sage, Springer, Guilford, and others. Please contact Neil Salkind for proposal development guidelines.


CALIFORNIA

Michael Lennie
Lennie Literary & Authors Attorneys
E-mail: Michael@lennieliterary.com
2255 Avenida de la Playa, Suite 7B2
La Jolla, CA 92037
Tel. (858) 456-0138
Website: http://www.lennieliterary.com

Michael Lennie offers TAA members a free, brief telephone consultation. For work beyond the initial consultation, TAA members receive a $20 discount from Lennie's normal hourly charge. A typical contract review costs $1,220. Lennie, who has been involved with TAA since 1985, and serves on the TAA Council, has his practice in La Jolla, California. One hundred percent of his practice is representing authors.


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ARIZONA

Michael Lennie
Lennie Literary & Authors Attorneys
E-mail: Michael@lennieliterary.com
2255 Avenida de la Playa, Suite 7B2
La Jolla, CA 92037
Tel. (858) 456-0138
Website: http://www.lennieliterary.com

Michael Lennie offers TAA members a free, brief telephone consultation. For work beyond the initial consultation, TAA members receive a $20 discount from Lennie's normal hourly charge. A typical contract review costs $1,220. Lennie, who has been involved with TAA since 1985, and serves on the TAA Council, has his practice in La Jolla, California. One hundred percent of his practice is representing authors.


CINCINNATI

Stephen E. Gillen, Member
Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC
E-mail: SEG@GDM.COM
2800 Chemed Center
255 E. Fifth Street Cincinnati, OH 45202
Tel. (513) 455-7647
Fax (513) 762-7947
Website: http://www.GDM.com

Prior to entering private practice in 1994, Gillen served as house counsel for South-Western Publishing Company (an educational publisher owned by The Thomson Corporation). In addition, Gillen has served on copyright and permissions committees with the Association of American Publishers. He has written and spoken nationally on various publishing and copyright topics and teaches a course in Media Business and Law at the University of Cincinnati and a course in Electronic Media Law at The College Conservatory of Music. He currently serves on the TAA Council, the Board of Trustees of Voyageur Media Group, Inc., and is a member of The Authors Guild. Gillen's practice emphasizes publishing and entertainment transactions and disputes, Internet issues, advertising law, computer law, copyrights, trademarks, technology transfer, trade secrets, and related matters. His clients include several East Coast publishers as well as authors, artists, photographers, videographers, independent producers, Internet service providers, multimedia developers, and software programmers from Maine to California. Gillen is admitted to practice in Ohio and before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.


MASSACHUSETTS

Zick Rubin
The Law Office of Zick Rubin
Email: zrubin@zickrubin.com
288 Walnut Street, Suite 230
Newton, MA 02460
Tel. (617) 965-9425 (965-ZICK)
Fax (617) 965-9426
Web Site: www.zickrubin.com


NEW YORK

John Burleigh
Jacobs deBrauwere LLP
Counselors at Law
E-mail: jfb@jddlaw.com
445 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Tel. (212) 207-8787 
Fax (212) 207-8727 
Website: http://www.jddlaw.com

Jacobs deBrauwere LLP provides experienced, careful an skilled lawyering by attorneys who offer a caliber of expertise characteristic of a large-firm practice, together with the energy, efficiency, and individualized attention of a small specialty firm.


Frank R. Curtis, Esq.
Rembar & Curtis
Email: fcurtis@remcur.com
P.O. Box 908
Croton Falls, NY 10519
Tel: (914) 276-2920
Fax: (914) 931-3070

Frank R. Curtis is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School and was a founding member of the law firm of Rembar & Curtis. He has focused primarily on publishing law since he began practicing in 1971, handling both contract negotiation and dispute resolution. Many of his clients are trade book authors, but he has also represented the authors of text and professional books, both in negotiating original contracts and in handling transitional situations involving retiring or deceased authors. He is the author of two articles on the termination-of-transfers provisions of the Copyright Act and has handled several important disputes involving the renewal and termination provisions of that Act.


Lloyd J. Jassin
E-mail: Jassin@copylaw.com
1560 Broadway, Suite 400
New York NY 10036
Tel. (212) 354-4442
Fax (212) 840-1124
Website: http://www.copylaw.com

Jassin will offer a free, brief consultation for out-of-town authors. He is coauthor of The Copyright Permission & Libel Handbook (Wiley).


CONNECTICUT

Garry A. Berger
Berger Legal LLC
E-mail: garry@bergerlegal.com
58 Olmstead Lane
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Tel. (203) 438-8705
Fax: (203) 431-4383
Website: http://www.bergerlegal.com


TEXAS

Mike Tolleson
E-mail: mike@miketolleson.com
2106 East Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Austin, Texas 78702
Tel. (512) 480-8822
Fax (512) 479-6212

Mike Tolleson, past chair of the State Bar of Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Section and Director of the Entertainment Law Institute is widely recognized as a leader in the field of entertainment. He has been involved in much of the development of the music and film industries in Texas over a thirty-five year period and works closely with many clients and organizations throughout the entertainment industry.

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