Stan Soocher is the long-time Editor-in-Chief of Entertainment Law & Finance. He is also Professor of Music & Entertainment Industry Studies at the University of Colorado’s Denver Campus. In addition, Stan is an entertainment attorney and a multi-recipient of ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for Excellence in Music Journalism, including for his articles in Rolling Stone and The National Law Journal. He is author of the books Baby You’re a Rich Man: Suing the Beatles for Fun & Profit and They Fought the Law: Rock Music Goes to Court. He is also a recipient of the State Bar of Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Section’s “Texas Star Award.”

Stan has presented solo speeches and/or participated on panels on entertainment law and industry developments, at among many other venues: the American Bar Association, N.Y. State Bar Association, State Bar of Texas, Nashville Bar Association, Copyright Society of the South, South-By-Southwest Music Conference, Dallas Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar, D.C. Bar, Colorado Bar Association, Minnesota State Bar, Liverpool Sound City Conference, Reeperbahn Conference and Festival in Germany, Georgia Bar, New Jersey Bar, Connecticut Bar, Florida Bar, California Lawyers for the Arts, Southern University Law Center, Cutting Edge Music Conference in New Orleans, Harvard Law School, Vanderbilt University School of Law, New York University Law School, Indiana University School of Law, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, Fordham University School of Law, New York Women in Film and Television, Dartmouth Lawyers Association, National Music Publishers Association, the Seattle Museum of Pop Culture, the Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association, the College Music Society and the Association of Popular Music Education.