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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 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 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 San Diego, California. One hundred percent of his practice is representing authors. Attorney Lawyer Information Services http://www.attorney-lawyer-info.com Publishing-Law Lawyers CALIFORNIA Michael Lennie 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 San Diego, California. One hundred percent of his practice is representing authors. OHIO Stephen E. Gillen 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. Michael J. Nath, LPA Michael Nath, J.D. is a practicing attorney in Ohio, specializing in intellectual property law as well as working with authors on publishing contracts. He earned his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and his law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. MASSACHUSETTS Zick Rubin NEW YORK John Burleigh 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. 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 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 TEXAS Mike Tolleson 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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