Nicholas Rohlfing Law is a transactional entertainment law firm representing a broad range of clients in the entertainment community including theatrical producers, composers, authors, collaborators, conductors, music directors, directors, choreographers, casting directors, dramaturgs and literary managers, associate directors and choreographers, actors, musicians, novelists, filmmakers, web desig
ners, recording artists and various rightsholders.
The Firm's clients include well-established personalities in the entertainment community as well as many who are just rising in their careers. The Firm is the sole representation for some clients who only need an entertainment attorney, but also represents clients who have a "team" including agents, managers, and publicists. The Firm is counsel for live theater productions, handling all aspects of the producing process--from obtaining the production rights of an underlying property, to contracting the creative personnel as the property is in development, to filing the appropriate documents with the SEC and state attorneys general. The Firm also counsels various collaborators (bookwriters, composers and lyricists) through the entire creative process in live theater, from the collaboration agreement at the outset of the process to the production rights option agreement with a commercial producer. The Firm has a group of unique clients in the Broadway and off-Broadway community who are dramaturgs and literary managers, as well as associate and resident directors and choreographers, whose contracts do not fall within any union's collective bargaining agreements. Nicholas is working hard to change the custom and practice regarding the deals for these clients and specializes in getting them the best deals in this essential but underappreciated niche of the business.
The Firm represents a number of concert performers who appear in venues around the country and the world--land and sea.
While not the primary focus of the Firm's practice, Nicholas has substantial experience--in both litigation and non-litigation contexts--resolving disputes that sometimes arise. Nicholas will evaluate a client's case and determine whether the Firm should handle the client's matter or whether it may be in the client's best interest to involve outside counsel.
