We are passionate about music education and supporting the incredible work of local nonprofit organizations.


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Nick Child, Founder and Trustee of Law Rocks Foundation

Nick is a Managing Director at Secretariat based in London and has played an active role in the global disputes industry for over over 29 years. Prior to joining Secretariat, Nick spent over 21 years at Keating Chambers in London, where he was appointed Senior Clerk by Sir Vivian Ramsey in 2005. He transferred his skills to the consultancy world in 2013 when recruited into a global construction disputes practice at a publicly traded consultancy. He was the first Senior Clerk to ever make such a move.
 
Nick is the founder of Law Rocks!, a charity fundraising global battle of the bands among legal organisations across the globe. A father of five children, he is also an Ambassador to KidsOut (www.kidsout.org), a charity which gives disadvantaged children positive experiences to support them becoming future members of our society and workforce. Nick has been included in "The Lawyer Hot 100”, a publication listing the 100 most influential people in the Law in the UK who said of him; “Child goes to 11”.
 
Nick started Law Rocks! because he wanted the legal industry to be recognized as givers, not takers. He knew they were, but the public perception was wrong. He now hopes this has changed for the better, and that Law Rocks! will forever put the ‘fun’ into ‘fundraising’.

 

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Ted Scott, US Co-Founder and Board President/Trustee of Law Rocks Foundation

By day, Ted Scott is a civil engineer and founding partner of the litigation consulting firm, Secretariat where he specializes in providing expert witness testimony on construction disputes and has considerable experience working on projects in the UK, the Middle East, the Far East and the United States of America

By night, Mr. Scott is a co-founder and the current President of Law Rocks where he believes that rock n roll can change the world.

 

 

 

Damian Hickman

Damian Hickman, Trustee of Law Rocks Foundation

Damian Hickman is the founder and CEO of The International Dispute Resolution Centre, which was set up in 2000. Before this he was the Manager of The Fleet Arbitration Centre which he joined in 1994. Damian is been regularly consulted in the setting up of other dispute resolution centres around the world. 

Damian is a member of the International Arbitration Charity Ball Committee and Compere/Partner of Law Rocks! and a Governor of the Europa School, a bi-lingual free school in Oxfordshire. He comperes as many Law Rocks! gigs around the world as he can get to and is very much the 'face' of Law Rocks!  

Brandt Mori, US Co-Founder

Brandt Mori is an experienced corporate attorney and General Counsel at VGC LLP who advises clients through their entire business lifecycle, focusing on business formation, JVs, M&A, private equity and venture capital and financing transactions; complex commercial agreements; and corporate governance and compliance.

Brandt joined VGC following a successful tenure at Venable LLP where he became a partner in the firm’s corporate group, leading support to a diverse and fiercely loyal array of clients. Prior to Venable, Brandt served as General Counsel to SBE, a leading international lifestyle hospitality company that develops, manages, owns, and operates award-winning hotels, restaurants and nightlife venues. At SBE, Brandt oversaw all legal matters for the company and developed extensive experience with all aspects of the hospitality and entertainment business. He was responsible for negotiating and drafting complex real estate and hospitality-related agreements, debt and security instruments, joint ventures, purchase agreements, and many other contracts.  He administered and enforced SBE’s substantial international IP portfolio.  Prior to SBE, Brandt was an associate at Venable, practicing in the corporate, tax and real estate arenas. He also spent 3 years as a tax professor in the undergraduate tax and accounting program at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.

Brandt understands the real world challenges and time constraints that face in-house legal departments and management teams and draws on this perspective to deliver first class service and valued legal advice to his clients.

Brandt lives in Napa Valley with his wife and four young children and when he isn’t with them, loves to help visiting friends discover hidden gems of the Napa region.


International Chairs

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Ricardo E. Barreiro-Deymonnaz, Buenos Aires Co-Chair

Ricardo is a founding and managing partner Barreiro. Oliva. De Luca. Jaca. Nicastro. Abogados, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he heads the Infrastructure and Construction Group and co-heads the Natural Resources and Energy Group. He has over twenty years’ experience in infrastructure and construction law, with a particular focus on oil and gas, mining and energy sectors. He advises local and multinational corporations in large-scale projects. Ricardo is co-Chair of the International Construction Projects Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), Council Member of the Section of Energy, Environment, Resources and Infrastructure Law of the IBA, founding member and President of the Argentine Society on Construction Law (SADEC), and Honorary Secretary of The English Speaking Union of Argentina. Ricardo is a fellow of the International Academy of Construction Lawyers, and is consistently listed as the leading Argentine construction lawyer by Who’s Who Legal.

Sidika Baysal, Istanbul Chair

Sidika specializes in International Mergers & Acquisitions and Technology Law. She is recognized as a Technology Law and M&A expert and leads the Corporate Law team of the B+B Legal. She gained extensive experience representing a variety of Turkish and international clients on buy and sell sides. She is currently co-chair in European Regional Forum of International Bar Association after her duties in various sub-committees. She is involved in various organizational committees of international legal conferences and is regularly invited as panelist in numerous panels.

 Sidika also acts as  Board Member of Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), and is among the founding members of E-Commerce and Internet Law Association and currently acts as board member.

Rob Buchanan, Sydney Co-Chair

Rob Buchanan is a construction and engineering lawyer based in Sydney and a partner at Pinsent Masons.  He helps clients deliver major Energy and Infrastructure projects, working mainly in the post-contract and dispute space.

Rob has no musical ability but has huge FOMO so has organized all of the Law Rocks! events in Australia to date and can be found on stage as the MC. 

Carolina Carlstedt, Singapore Co-Chair

Carolina is an Investment Manager at Litigation Capital Management in Singapore. Before she started working for LCM, she was a private practice lawyer in Hong Kong and London and specialised in complex international arbitration and highly technical construction disputes across a number of sectors. Carolina is admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales and Hong Kong. 

 

 

 

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Anil Changaroth, Singapore Co-Chair

Anil, a Mediator, Adjudicator, Arbitrator, Advocate & Solicitor of Singapore and Solicitor of England and Wales is managing director (& general counsel) of ChangAroth Chambers LLC and ChangAroth InterNational Consultancy.

He has been in practice and in house since 1995 primarily involved with appropriate dispute resolution of Constuction and , after qualifying as a Barrister of England and a short career as infantry officer with the Singapore Armed Forces. 

Anil’s Pro Bono and charity work since 1997 includes the Children’s Cancer Foundation’s Hair for Hope and in the constituency of Jurong Town mentoring ex-inmates, family youth under TASEK Jurong (connected to the Yellow Ribbon Project) and legal and community affairs for the Honourable Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam.

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Carlos Ibarra, Mexico Co-Chair

Carlos is a founder and partner of Ibarra del Paso Gallego, where he specializes in Real Estate, Hospitality and Business Transactions. 

Carlos is admitted to practice law in Mexico and in the United States in New York and California. He has over twenty years of experience advising foreign and domestic investors doing business in Mexico, specializing on Real Estate, Infrastructure and M&A transactions, actively representing several companies in the acquisition, leasing and development of real estate properties for industrial, residential, commercial, tourism and hospitality (restaurants, hotels and services) and infrastructure projects.

Carlos has represented agencies of the Mexican Federal Government, foreign banks, Mexican developers and foreign investors in different sorts of real estate transactions involving financings, development, restructurings, acquisitions and dispositions of real estate assets.

Carlos obtained his Law degree (JD equivalent) from Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City in 1998 and obtained an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University Law Center in 2002 as a Fulbright Scholar. 

 Carlos has been acknowledged by British and US editorials as a leading attorney recognized in the real estate sector in Mexico.

Likewise, he has been an organizer, panelist and speaker in several real estate /foreign investment in Mexico specialized fora, both in the United States and Mexico. Since 2007 Carlos has been a professor of Legal Real Estate Topics with the Technological Autonomous Institute of Mexico (ITAM), Universidad Anáhuac and the Urban Land Institute, where he is also the Treasurer for the Mexico District Council.

Carlos has published several specialized articles on legal real estate and investment subjects with American and British editorials. He is also a compiler, editorial coordinator and co-author of the book Real Estate Law: Select Topics and Sector Perspectives, by Editorial Porrúa and ITAM.

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Fiona McAllister, London Chair

Fiona is an In House Lawyer with Channel 4 Television. She is dual qualified in England and Wales as well as Scotland. Fiona has long been involved in the media and entertainment industries and has unique experience of advising high-profile/high net worth individuals and corporate clients pre and post publication, both north and south of the border, on issues of defamation, reputation protection, crisis management, harassment, privacy, the media regulatory codes, data protection, copyright and passing off/false endorsement. Fiona has also handled commercial disputes and has a broad range of experience across a variety of sectors. Fiona previously spent eight years in private practice in Scotland and has in-house experience from the Royal Bank of Scotland, BBC Scotland and FirstGroup plc.

Fiona’s pro bono and not for profit work includes working at Citizens Advice Bureaus, being President of the Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association, which involved educating and representing lawyers up to 10 years’ qualified and lobbying on issues around access to the profession which resulted in National Minimum Wage being introduced for lawyers in Scotland for the first time and obtaining Counsel’s opinion on making trainees redundant (providing firms cannot do so). Fiona has also been a Director of LawWorks Scotland since 2013, which works with partners from across the commercial, public, voluntary and community sectors to put in place legal services for people who are not eligible for legal aid and who are without the means to pay for a lawyer.

Having benefited from free music tuition at school herself, Fiona is concerned that free music tuition is increasingly being stripped from schools across the UK. She passionate about music education and the Law Rocks cause.

Sara Paradisi, London Co-Chair

Sara is a Senior Associate in Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s specialist Construction Disputes and International Arbitration practice based in Singapore. She has 10 years’ experience advising clients on major construction, engineering, energy and infrastructure projects around the world.

Sara acts as counsel and advocate in international arbitrations and has represented parties in arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA, SIAC and UNCITRAL Rules, with arbitral seats across Asia and Europe.

Sara is a Solicitor-Advocate and has Higher Rights of Audience in the English Courts.  She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in October 2008 (the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn).  Sara is a member of the eDisclosure Working Group of the Technology and Construction Court (UK) and the junior sub-committee of the Technology and Construction Solicitors’ Association (“TeCSA”), TeCSA 10s.

 

 

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Adrián del Paso Puente, Mexico Co-Chair

Adrián is a founder and partner of Ibarra, del Paso y Gallego, S.C., where he heads the Environmental and Life Sciences practice areas. 

Adrián is admitted to practice law in Mexico since 2004 and has more than 15 years of professional experience. He mostly represents large transnational companies in a wide array of environmental and life sciences matters, ranging from consulting, permitting, litigation, transactional -M&A derived- work and generally large and complex projects.

 Adrián obtained his Law degree (JD equivalent) from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 2004. He obtained a Masters Degree in Environmental Policy and Management from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2006 and an LL.M. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in 2019, among other diplomas and courses.

 Adrián has been acknowledged by British and US editorials as a leading attorney recognized in the environmental sector in Mexico.

 Adrián has been an active panelist and speaker in environmental and life sciences fora, both in Mexico and abroad. He has almost 10 years of experience as a professor of Environmental Law at the Real Estate Post-Graduate Diplomas of Instituto Tecnológico Autonómo de México (ITAM), Universidad Anáhuac and the Urban Land Institute. 

 Adrián has published several specialized articles on his areas of expertise with American and British editorials. 

Adrián loves travelling, films, reading, jogging, swimming and above all, music! He is a keen concert attendant, a guitar performer and a current piano student (re-learning from his childhood lessons).

Erwan Robert, Paris Co-Chair

Erwan is a Senior Associate with the Energy and Natural Resources department at Reed Smith in Paris. Erwan specializes in international construction. He advises clients during live projects and also represents them in arbitration. Erwan is a French avocat and also a member of Young Practitioners of Construction in Paris (YPCP). Erwan is a rock guitar player and a member of the band who won the first ever LawRocks! concert in Paris with his trusty Flying V (and a Marshall stack if available).

 

Leopoldo Hernández Romano, Mexico Co-Chair

Leopoldo Hernández Romano is a Managing Partner at KermaPartners. Based in Mexico City, he advises primarily law firms on the areas of strategy design and implementation, organizational structures’ transformation projects, partner and associates’ compensation schemes and governance. He has advised Iberoamerican and Latin America alliances on strategic position ing.

Before joining KermaPartners, Leopoldo was the founder and managing partner of HernándezRomano Consultores in Mexico City. He was also the Chief Operating Oficer for the Mexican office of one the top 10 New York law firms.

Leopoldo earned his Law degree from Panamericana University in Mexico City and holds an MBA from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. He lectures at Panamericana University Law School on International Trade, Arbitration and Law firms’ Management. 

He has been the coordinator of the Mexican Bar Association, Law firm’s management commission and member of the Board. He is an active member of the International Bar Association.

Leopoldo enjoys spending time with his children, playing and watching tennis, and collecting watches.

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Louise Santos, Sydney Co-Chair

Louise, Senior Associate at Norton Rose Fulbright, has broad experience advising different parties on construction and infrastructure projects in a variety of sectors, with a focus on transport. She has advised on a wide range of PPP and UK PFI projects at all stages of the procurement process, as well as construction projects (using both D&C and construct only contracts) and services contracts. She is admitted in both England and Wales and New South Wales, Australia. More importantly perhaps, she sang at, and won, the first ever Law Rocks! gig at The 100 Club in London in 2009.

 

 


US Board of Directors

Cat Casey

Cat Casey is Chief Growth Officer at Reveal-Brainspace, the leading legal AI company, where she co-leads innovation and direction for their legal technology solutions. Also known as the Technocat, she is a keynote speaker, global thought leader and outspoken advocate of legal professionals embracing technology. Cat has over a decade and a half of experience assisting clients with complex eDiscovery and forensic needs that arise from litigation, expansive regulation, and complex contractual relationships.

 Before Reveal, Cat was the Chief Innovation Officer for another top Legal AI company and the Global leader for Legal Technology at Gibson Dunn. She led a global team comprised of experienced practitioners in the areas of electronic discovery, data privacy, and information governance. Prior to that, she was a leader in the Forensic Technology Practice for PwC and the national subject matter expert on eDiscovery at KPMG.

 A metalhead since birth and a fierce believer in helping the legal community pay it forward, Cat is thrilled to sit on the board of Law Rocks.

 

Shawn Dailey

Shawn Dailey is an artist manager with over 20 years in music and film.
He started his career as a bassist, most notably with Courtney Love and Hole.
As a manager, Shawn represents Grammy winners, Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame inductees, award winning filmmakers and best selling authors. He has also produced multiple award winning documentaries.

 

 

 

 

Greg Doll

Greg Doll is the founding partner of Doll Amir & Eley, an 18-lawyer litigation firm in Century City.  He has been a drummer for 30 years, and played professionally for several years on the Sunset Strip in the 90s, sharing the stage with bands such as Incubus and System of a Down.  His current lawyer band, Big Dicta, has played Law Rocks in Los Angeles for the past four years, and took home top prize in 2015 alongside Latham & Watkins’ band, Diversion. 

 

 

 

 

Devon Engel

Devon Engel is Vice President and General Counsel of General Dynamics Mission Systems, which is headquartered in Fair Lakes, Virginia. With approximately 13,000 employees worldwide, Mission Systems develops and delivers mission critical life saving products and systems across land, sea, air, space and cyber domains.

Devon earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology and sociology from Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. He earned his law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he graduated with honors and was a member of the Law Review.

Devon started his legal career at Crowell & Moring in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in government contract law. In 1996, Devon moved to Scottsdale to go in-house with Motorola. That business was sold to General Dynamics in 2001 and is now part of General Dynamics Mission Systems. Devon has been active in the government contract legal community throughout his career and has published numerous articles and lectured frequently on government contract and other legal topics.

Devon is also very active in his community. He was a member of the Board of Directors for DrugFreeAZKids.org for ten years, serving as Chairman of the Board for three years. He has also been a long time supporter of the United Way, the American Diabetes Association, Law Rocks, Sentinels of Freedom and numerous other charitable organizations. While in private practice in DC, Devon provided pro bono legal services on adoption matters, including the successful opposition of a high profile petition to the Supreme Court.

Devon lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he and his wife Carla have four kids between them. To unwind, Devon enjoys playing golf and tennis with his kids, cycling, hiking and reading. He is also a bass player and plays in a rock and roll cover band in Scottsdale called Retro-Active and an original band based in Atlanta called Several Dudes. Devon has won Law Rocks in DC and Phoenix with two different bands.

Amanda Horn

Amanda’s legal career began right out of high school when she worked for a third-party claims administration company.  While climbing the ranks she put herself through UCLA and Willamette University College of Law, and then practiced law in the class action sector before returning to administration. Amanda led many significant administrations, including high-profile music industry settlements.

 Amanda left the legal services world and began focusing on nonprofit endeavors, including The Troy and Baden Biddle Foundation, a 501(c)3 she created in honor of her husband and son killed in 2017 by a habitual drunk driver.  Introduced to Law Rocks through her work with a CA nonprofit, Amanda assembled a band with clients to perform at Law Rocks SF in 2015 and 2016. Her love of music and philanthropy continue to drive Amanda's ongoing commitment to the Law Rocks mission. 

 Amanda lives in the Pacific Northwest with her daughter, where you will find her teaching yoga, volunteering in the community, and singing with local bands.

 

Charles D. Jarrell

Charles “Chuck” Jarrell is a partner at Allen Matkins whose practice focuses on commercial litigation, with an emphasis on complex business disputes and commercial fraud claims. His practice encompasses a broad spectrum of litigation, including real estate, partnership, environmental, and construction disputes.

Mr. Jarrell also serves on the board of Law Rocks and the Ketchum-Downtown YMCA.  When he is not serving his community, Chuck is the band leader and guitarist for The Nuisance.  He has also served as the emcee of Law Rocks events.

 

 

Eric Kennedy

Eric Kennedy is a Shareholder in Buchalter’s Orange County and Los Angeles offices. Drawing on two decades of experience, Mr. Kennedy often functions as outside general counsel for his clients, utilizing Buchalter’s full service platform and deep bench of talented lawyers to address a wide variety of legal needs from litigation counseling and management, to employment, to financing, to mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Kennedy’s personal practice focuses on complex litigation matters with an emphasis on real estate disputes, including representing owners, operators, investors, developers, landlords, and commercial tenants. Mr. Kennedy has handled matters involving purchase agreements, partnerships/LLCs, leases, financing, construction and development, and land use and entitlements. Mr. Kennedy also routinely advises clients in strategies for avoiding litigation.

Mr. Kennedy has significant experience defending consumer class actions and disputes involving contracts, unfair competition, fiduciary relationships, false advertising, trade secrets, and trademark and copyright infringement. Mr. Kennedy represents clients in a variety of industries, including technology, retail, apparel, social media, consumer products, and automotive. 

 

Gabe McCool

Gabe McCool is Vice President of Legal and IP at ReNAgade Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Gabe has over two decades of experience as a life sciences IP attorney at AM100 law firms and renowned IP-specialty firms in New York and Boston.  He has provided key strategic advice on intellectual property matters at the intersection of law, science, and business for clients throughout the biotechnology ecosystem for over twenty years and has represented clients the world over which are in the business of crafting cutting-edge life-changing medicines.  He received his law degree from Fordham University School of Law in New York City.  Prior to that, he received his Ph.D. degree in Microbiology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also received his B.Sc. degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.  

When not thinking about biotech IP, Gabe can be found practicing his bass guitar in his home studio for the next chance jam with his family and friends, record music with his band, or get ready for the next Law Rocks fundraiser show.  Gabe has been raising money with his various Law Rocks bands for over 9 years at nearly a dozen shows in New York City, Los Angeles, and Law Rocks-Apalooza, helping to raise over $160K for non-profits that include Operation Birthday, JDRF, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, and the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center.  Gabe is honored to sit on the U.S. Board of Directors and do whatever he can to help Law Rocks continue achieving great things and making a difference.

Charity O'Sullivan

Charity O’Sullivan is  Managing Director of Marsh USA, Inc. based in Los Angeles office.   She has over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry encompassing various roles- Loss Control, Underwriting, and Commercial Brokerage.  In her tenure at Marsh she has held advisory roles, led the Pacific South Region’s Environmental Practice, and received industry recognitions such as Risk and Insurance Magazine’s Power Broker Award.  Today, she is a Client Executive that strategically advises clients and attorneys in addressing complex global risk issues in the Technology, Real Estate, and Environmental industry.   

 

 

Stephen Rabinowitz

Stephen Rabinowitz is Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Real Estate Practice. Stephen advises a wide variety of real estate clients in transactions across all classes of commercial property. From his base in New York, Stephen often leads national and international teams in domestic and cross-border transactions. Stephen’s clients have to turned to him to lead some of the largest real estate transactions ever reported.

In addition to his work with Law Rocks, Stephen has led all of the real estate and facilities efforts of the East Harlem Tutorial Program and the East Harlem Scholars Academies for more than a decade; and for nine years served on the board of the Lupus Foundation of America.

Stephen is the lead guitarist of “The Meltones”, Greenberg Traurig’s house band and the seven time winner of Law Rocks NY. The Meltones have raised more than $350,000 for local non-profits.

A guitarist since age 7, over the years Stephen has had his hand in an eclectic mix of music projects including a Cello/Guitar jazz ensemble, “Klez-ska” a Ska-Klezmer band and, currently, the acoustic trio “Louise in Trouble”.

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Joe Trofino

Joe Trofino is the Head of Commercial Transactions & Client Services in the Office of the Chief Legal Officer at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which provides dedicated legal support to CAA in the areas of litigation, corporate transactions, compliance, advice and counseling, and governmental affairs, along with supporting CAA’s needs when it comes to commercial, talent agency and employment laws, among other legal areas.  CAA is the world’s leading full service entertainment, media, and sports agency.  CAA represents many of the most successful professionals working in television, film, music, theatre, video games, sports, and digital content, and also provides a range of strategic and marketing consulting services to corporate clients.

Joe also serves on the board of trustees for the Beating the Odds Foundation, which helps America’s youth achieve success by empowering them to live meaningful, purposeful lives as caring human beings and builders of caring communities.


Anthony Bozza

Anthony Bozza is an author and journalist who was a staff writer at Rolling Stone for 8 years. In 2002 he left the magazine to write Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem, which was born of the unparalleled access and hours he spent with Eminem while working on his Rolling Stone features. The book was a New York Times bestseller and an international bestseller, topping lists in England, Germany, France and South America. He then co-authored numerous autobiographies of artists including Slash, INXS, Tommy Lee, Mick Fleetwood, and Wyclef Jean. He’s written 7 additional NYT Bestsellers, including books on AC/DC, comedians Artie Lange and Tracy Morgan, and baseball legend Derek Jeter. His latest two books are “Not Afraid,” a follow-up to his first book on Eminem, and "From Staircase to Stage," the autobiography of Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan.

Buck Dharma

Buck Dharma's guitar playing is the signature sound of Blue Öyster Cult, and is the driving sonic force of Blue Öyster Cult. An extremely expressive player, and he continues to push his playing in new directions.

Buck is a gifted songwriter and excellent singer. His smooth vocal style has graced the BÖC hits "Don't Fear the Reaper" and "Burnin' For You." His voice contrasts and complements the sharper-edged style of lead vocalist Eric Bloom.

Buck's songwriting juxtaposes alluring chord progressions, melodic textures and fascinating lyrical ideas with the best parts of pop music.

Jerry Harrison

Jeremiah Griffin Harrison (born February 21, 1949) is an American songwriter, musician, producer, and entrepreneur. He began his professional music career while attending Harvard as a member of the cult band the Modern Lovers before becoming a keyboardist and guitarist for Talking Heads.

Harrison joined Talking Heads in 1977, after releasing their debut single, "Love → Building on Fire". 

Harrison has produced and worked on albums by bands including Foo Fighters, Fine Young Cannibals, Hockey, Violent Femmes, The BoDeans, The Von Bondies, General Public, Live, Crash Test Dummies, The Verve Pipe, Poi Dog Pondering, Rusted Root, Stroke 9, The Bogmen, Black 47, The Mayfield Four, Of A Revolution, No Doubt, Josh Joplin Group, The Black and White Years, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Bamboo Shoots, the String Cheese Incident and The Gracious Few.

In 2002, Harrison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Talking Heads.

In 2021, he received at Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys.

Maria Milito

Maria Milito has been heard on the New York radio and television airwaves for over 25 years. Whether you’re in the Tri-State area listening to Q104.3, New York’s Classic Rock Station or traveling nationwide, one might find it difficult to escape her signature voice as a host on iHeartMedia’s Classic Rock network—from Spokane WA to Allentown PA. Maria also adds author to her list of credits with the publishing of “Clarice and Friends...How They Helped Mend the Hole in My Heart,” a collection of emails from her listeners sent to her when her beloved dog Clarice passed away. A huge animal advocate, Maria can often be found at animal functions and charity events and has an animal/nature/environment podcast on the iHeartRadio app called “Maria’s Mutts & Stuff”; download the app and listen today!

Billy Morrison

Billy Morrison is an English guitarist, singer and fine artist who plays guitar with Billy Idol and performs with the Los Angeles-based cover band Royal Machines. Morrison previously fronted the hard rock act Circus Diablo and has been a member of The Cult, Stimulator, Doheny and Into a Circle. He has also enjoyed a fine art career for over a decade. 

Morrison currently hosts his own radio show, INFLUENCED, on Ozzy’s Boneyard Sirius XM Channel 38, as well as co-hosts his chat show with Ozzy Osbourne, OZZY SPEAKS, on the same channel.

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Debbie White

Debbie White, partner at Loeb & Loeb, focuses her practice in the music, motion picture and entertainment industries, with particular emphasis on representing recording artists, songwriters, producers, managers, record companies, publishing companies, and digital media and technology companies in their ongoing business affairs.

Recognized as a top entertainment lawyer by leading publications such as VarietyThe Hollywood Reporter and Billboard, Debra is known for her work negotiating multimillion-dollar recording contracts, as well as agreements related to publishing, worldwide touring, film soundtrack and Broadway cast albums, merchandising and sponsorships. A significant portion of her music practice centers on the development of copyright strategies and implementation of licensing efforts for digital companies, major advertisers and advertising agencies, sports and television networks, and entertainment companies.

Her experience representing talent, combined with her in-depth understanding of licensing and publishing rights, uniquely positions Debra to address the complex issues that arise when artists work with subscription streaming services and other new media companies and licensors of digital content.

She also leverages her talent and recording relationships to negotiate entertainment-related strategic marketing partnerships, tour sponsorships, brand integration agreements and celebrity product endorsement deals on behalf of advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies from a variety of industries.

In addition, Debra represents actors, fashion designers, athletes, chefs, models and high-level industry executives in a range of traditional entertainment matters. She has been very successful at expanding her clients’ interests through ventures such as book publishing, fragrance and cosmetic licensing agreements, non-scripted television deals, and infomercials.

Debra's practice is international in scope, and she is increasingly active in Asia’s expanding entertainment and media market, with clients that include China’s largest tech company and one of the most popular K-pop bands in history.


Omi Crawford, Director

Omi Crawford joined Law Rocks in mid-2014 as the Director of Marketing and Development. She has extensive experience in nonprofit management, development, marketing, and event planning, as well as the creative and performing arts.

Omi is inspired by the tremendous good that local nonprofits do for their communities and is a true believer in the power of music.

Amy Rupnow, Associate Director of Events

Amy Rupnow began her journey with Law Rocks helping out at the Los Angeles show in 2016. She’s worn several hats for Law Rocks since, and is excited for her new role as Manager of Marketing and Events. Amy has considerable experience in live events, television and film production, as well as a background in the performing arts. She’s enjoyed meeting all the incredible bands and nonprofits who’ve made Law Rocks a success and looks forward to helping the organization continue its mission to rock for a cause. 

Chloe Cipolla, Marketing and Development Associate

Chloe comes to Law Rocks with a background in nonprofits, previously working as a Development Associate for the California Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. She is a skater with the Los Angeles Derby Dolls, LA’s premier banked track roller derby league, and a lover of rock and roll. She is very excited to be a part of such a great team.