Robin Mitchell Joyce, partner of Milom Joyce Horsnell Crow PLC, represents entertainment, intellectual property, media, and technology clients throughout the United States. Her 20 years of experience includes the negotiation of music, print, film, television, and technology deals, the complete protection and licensing of intellectual property and the development and financing of entertainment projects. She represents music, audiovisual, technology, and entertainment and sports media companies; individual content creators of all sorts, including recording artists, songwriters, book authors, screen and stage writers, film, television and record producers; as well as entertainment executives and entrepreneurs across the creative indus-tries.
Honored for innovation to her practice andasone of the "New Stars" of the legal profession by Lawdragon in 2006, RMJ began to identify music, audiovisual works, still images, text and other creative works as marketable and deliverable "content" as early as 2001, reorganizing her current practice into the transactions associated with creating, branding, licensing, marketing and delivering content. In addition to her traditional transactional practice, she provides assistance in accessing the entertainment industries and the development of new entertainment and sports media projects and connects content creators with business partners and corporate opportunities. She actively serves her clients and her industry as a predictor of entertainment trends and an author of creative strategies for delivering quality content in all possible ways.
RMJ is annually featured in such publications as The Best Lawyers In America, Best of Bar, and Superlawyers. She is a founding member of the board of directors of the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies, a founding member of the executive committee of the Grammy Foundation's Entertainment Law Initiative, a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation, a past governor of The Recording Academy and served as a director, officer and counsel to Leadership Music for over 13 years. RMJ was the founding chair of the enter-tainment section of the Nashville Bar Association, is an adjunct professor of entertainment law at Vanderbilt Law School and a frequent speaker and panelist at other law schools throughout the country, entertainment industry events and continuing legal education programs. A former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Tennessee, RMJ is admitted to practice before numerous courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. For over ten years she authored the column Robin's Rules of Disorder for the monthly Law Association of Women publication, now archived at rulesofdisorder.com, executive produced the critically-acclaimed Al Green special, The Green Room, and produced and hosted 48 episodes of the weekly entertainment television show, Marooned, currently on hiatus.
