Full Service Legal Support for Creators and Companies

At The Law Offices of Max H. Hacker, A Professional Corporation, we know that today’s creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses in the entertainment and digital media fields require sophisticated legal services to navigate the increasingly complex legal landscape with confidence. We provide a wide range of transactional, counseling, and brand management services tailored to your creative and business objectives, no matter the context. Whether you are starting a new project, preparing for the takeoff of your company, negotiating a landmark agreement, expanding into new business lines, structuring an investment to secure the funding you need, or protecting your intellectual property assets to create a competitive edge in the market, we pride ourselves on providing practical, responsive, and knowledgeable legal service at every stage.

Contract Negotiation and Document Drafting: Protect Your Rights

Contracts are fundamental to every successful creative project and business relationship. LOMHH has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting a wide variety of agreements that are critical to the entertainment and digital media industries. Our representation carefully balances zealous advocacy with strategic counsel, ensuring that your rights and interests are safeguarded without damaging relationships and opportunities. Whether you are an independent artist entering into a brand partnership, a production company engaging talent, or a digital entrepreneur licensing your creations, we provide customized legal solutions with practical tools that go beyond simple forms.

Our contract services include:

• Social media brand partnership agreements
• Product collaboration agreements
• Licensing agreements for content, technology, and IP
• Talent services, employment, and independent contractor agreements
• Production, development, and distribution agreements
• Non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements

We take the time to explain terms, identify risky elements, and tailor agreements to specific objectives, helping you make informed decisions and prevent future disputes.

Intellectual Property Protection: Defend Your Unique Ideas

In the age of digital media, safeguarding your intellectual property is crucial – from original music and screenplays to branding and digital media. LOMHH offers a full range of IP services, including registry, rights management, and enforcement services, helping ensure that what’s yours stays yours.

Our intellectual property services include:

• Copyright registration and enforcement (including filings at the U.S. Copyright Office, cease and desist letters, and DMCA takedown requests)
• Trademark registration and enforcement (including search/clearance work, application drafting, and Office Action responses)
• Strategic portfolio management for creators, companies, and brands
• Fair use counseling, licensing, and digital rights management

Through close collaboration with clients in determining the best approach for protecting and enforcing creative assets, we enable you to share your work with confidence that no one will infringe upon or misappropriate it.

Corporate and Business Legal Services: Foundation for Integrated Development

Choosing the correct business structure is paramount to a business’s growth, liability exposure, and sustainability. At the Law Offices of Max H. Hacker, we help creators and companies establish and maintain business structures that best meet their needs – whether an individual artist setting up an LLC, a group of creators forming a corporation, or a development studio managing multiple joint ventures.

Our corporate legal services include:

• Business entity formation: LLCs, corporations, and partnerships
• Drafting and advising on operating agreements, bylaws, and shareholder agreements
• Business licensing and compliance with local, state, and federal regulations
• General business advising: day-to-day operations, risk management, governance
• Mergers & acquisitions; restructurings for companies in the creative industries

For more mature businesses, we also offer legal support services to help you evolve, grow with new opportunities, and address new operational issues as they arise with security.

Brand Management and Strategic Counsel

Today’s creators and companies must not just guard against misappropriation of their work, but must proactively manage brand value and public perception. LOMHH provides brand management and business strategy counseling customized to your specific needs, giving you powerful legal and business tools to succeed in competitive entertainment and digital media industries.

How We Help:

• Build and preserve distinctive brands through trademark counseling
• Structure and negotiate brand deals and endorsement relationships
• Assess risk and reward in digital content creation and distribution
• Navigate social media, influencer marketing, and new digital media platforms
• Develop strategies for long-term brand building, expansion, and licensing

With a clear-eyed understanding of both the creative landscape and commercial imperatives, our firm plays an important role in developing, building, and sustaining the brands you want to be recognized for.

Boutique Staff and Big-Firm Experience

Led by Max H. Hacker, who is licensed in California and New York, our firm responds to clients with the availability, service, and simplicity of a boutique agency while also bringing the depth of legal knowledge necessary to tackle cross-border and national issues. We focus on accessibility and communication while providing straightforward advice with a palpable passion for the creative economy.

Max’s local roots as a Los Angeles native and current Denver resident give him invaluable perspective to every client relationship. Max delights clients with practical advice and creative ways of thinking through issues to empower their professional roles as artists who are also entrepreneurs. Having worked with independent creators, start-ups, and established production entities, Max is familiar with the pressures and potential afforded by the digital frontier.

Flexible Billing and Insurance Guidelines

Every client and their needs are unique, and so is our service model at LOMHH. Our flexible engagement options can be customized to fit your needs and budget:

• Hourly billing for ongoing or complex matters
• Flat-fee for certain services, such as business formation, contract negotiations, trademark filings, etc.
• Retainer relationships for the ongoing needs of brand managers seeking consistent legal direction and brand management

We start every engagement with an introductory dialogue to learn more about your situation and to discuss the scope of intended services. We believe in pricing transparently, so there won’t be any surprises. Simply put, we are here to serve your greater interest and to create value that furthers the creative and business endeavors in which you are engaged.

Representing Entertainment and Digital Media Clients Across the Country

While our firm is headquartered in Colorado, and we have lawyer-licenses in California and New York, we represent clients all over the country, particularly those working in the entertainment, digital media, and creativity industries. So whether you’re a musician in Los Angeles, a podcaster in Brooklyn, a startup in Denver, a production company with worldwide reach, or anybody else doing business anywhere, our firm can help you address legal concerns and pursue new opportunities.

Contact: Start Securing Your Creative Future

Your creative process is at the heart of your business. You deserve a law firm that is going to support and defend it! At Law Offices of Max H. Hacker, A Professional Corporation, we commit ourselves to your rights and actively help you protect, develop, and profit from what you create.

Call us today to book an appointment and discuss how we can assist in protecting and growing your creative business. For more information or to get in touch, please visit our Contact Us page.

DISCLAIMER: This website is designed for general information only. Nothing on this site should be taken as legal advice or opinion. Your use of this website indicates to us that there is no attorney-client relationship developed between us, and you should not rely on any information posted here without personally consulting one of our attorneys.