Full Name
Dina LaPolt
Job Title
Attorney/Owner
Organization
LaPolt Law, P.C.
Speaker Bio
Dina LaPolt is a top music attorney who owns her own law firm representing numerous high-profile artists including deadmau5, Steven Tyler, and Britney Spears. She is an expert at strategizing and solving complex legal and business issues relating to contracts, copyrights, trademarks, rights of publicity, and litigation.
Dina is intimately involved in legislative advocacy, co-founding the Songwriters of North America (SONA) and helping spearhead the Music Modernization Act, a copyright bill signed into law by President Trump on October 11, 2018.
She made headlines in February of 2019 when she helped free client 21 Savage from ICE detention and in August of 2018, when she again took on President Trump over his unauthorized use of Steven Tyler’s music at campaign rallies.
For the 18th consecutive year, Dina taught her UCLA Extension class, “Legal and Practical Aspects of the Music Business.” Billboard called the class an “industry must-attend” and a “breeding ground for some of the music industry's best and brightest.” Dina also presented a TED Talk on the importance of standing up for songwriters.
Dina has been honored with numerous industry accolades including Billboard’s Power 100, Women in Music, and Music’s Most Powerful Attorneys; the Hollywood Reporter’s Top Music Business Attorneys; and Variety’s Legal Impact Report and Women’s Impact Report. Notably, Dina earned recognition as MIDEM’s 2018 Top Lawyer, one of the 2018 Executives of the Year for Billboard’s Women in Music, and the Recording Academy’s 2019 Entertainment Law Initiative’s Service Award recipient, an award for which Dina was the youngest lawyer as well as the second woman ever selected.
Dina is intimately involved in legislative advocacy, co-founding the Songwriters of North America (SONA) and helping spearhead the Music Modernization Act, a copyright bill signed into law by President Trump on October 11, 2018.
She made headlines in February of 2019 when she helped free client 21 Savage from ICE detention and in August of 2018, when she again took on President Trump over his unauthorized use of Steven Tyler’s music at campaign rallies.
For the 18th consecutive year, Dina taught her UCLA Extension class, “Legal and Practical Aspects of the Music Business.” Billboard called the class an “industry must-attend” and a “breeding ground for some of the music industry's best and brightest.” Dina also presented a TED Talk on the importance of standing up for songwriters.
Dina has been honored with numerous industry accolades including Billboard’s Power 100, Women in Music, and Music’s Most Powerful Attorneys; the Hollywood Reporter’s Top Music Business Attorneys; and Variety’s Legal Impact Report and Women’s Impact Report. Notably, Dina earned recognition as MIDEM’s 2018 Top Lawyer, one of the 2018 Executives of the Year for Billboard’s Women in Music, and the Recording Academy’s 2019 Entertainment Law Initiative’s Service Award recipient, an award for which Dina was the youngest lawyer as well as the second woman ever selected.
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