W. Michael Milom is a partner in the firm of Milom Joyce Horsnell Crow PLC and concentrates his practice in the areas of entertainment, copyright and literary property law representing many of the most successful recording artists, producers, songwriters, music publishers, authors and other members of the creative community.

He is a past chairman of the Tennessee Bar Association Section on Copyright, Entertainment and Sports Law and has served as chairman of the Entertainment Law Committee of the Nashville Bar Association. He has served on the Executive Committee, Music and Personal Appearances Division of the American Bar Association Forum Committee on the Entertainment and Sports Industries and on the Copyright Office Committee of the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association. He served as a member of the International Copyright Panel of the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Intellectual Property, a trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A and as a founding director and chairman of the Copyright Society of the South. He has also served as a member of the Advisory Council of the Tennessee Film, Entertainment and Music Commission and Chairman of the Mayor's Advisory Commission for the Metropolitan Nashville Film Office and currently serves as a founding member of the board of Tennessee Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.

In its listing of decision makers in the Nashville music industry, Music Row Magazine called Mike "one of the most effective and respected entertainment lawyers," noting especially his national reputation in intellectual property law. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for more than ten years and has been named one of the "Best 150 Lawyers in the State of Tennessee" by Business Tennessee magazine (January 2008). In the past two years, Mike was named Best of the Bar in the Nashville Business Journal, a distinction earned exclusively by nominations by other attorneys. He was recently included in Lawdragon's 500 best lawyers in America and is listed as one of Tennessee's leading media and entertainment lawyers by Chambers USA. He is a member of the adjunct faculty of Vanderbilt University School of Law and is a frequent speaker in professional seminars and symposia on intellectual property and entertainment law throughout the United States. He is active in community affairs, having served as president and a board member of the Greater Nashville Arts Foundation and Legal Counsel to the Country Music Association and currently serves as legal counsel to the Chet Atkins Music Education Fund, and the Country Music Foundation, Inc. He is an alumnus of Leadership Nashville and Leadership Music.

Mike received his B.S. degree in 1964 from Middle Tennessee State University and his J.D. degree in 1971 from Vanderbilt University.