Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries We foster excellence in our industries through education, networking, and camaraderie with industry leaders and colleagues.

An entertainment, media, & intellectual property law firm concentrating our practice on matters involving creative industries and endeavors.

Saper Law is an intellectual property, social media, entertainment, and business law firm with headline grabbing clients and cases. We’re best known for our expertise in handling business contract negotiations, drafting complex software, domain name, trademark, and copyright licensing agreements, drafting sweepstakes and contest rules, organizing new LLCs or Corporations, and generally serving as outside “inside” counsel to many creative individuals and innovative business organizations.

It is impossible to honor professional cores values of librarians—first amendment, equity of access, and inclusion—without copyright law. Without it, libraries would be unable to loan books, preserve content, and exercise fair use. Libraries have a privileged position in the law with individual exceptions that apply only to non-profit libraries and archives. Congress recognized that libraries are sites of learning, where protected content will be continually available, distributed, used, and preserved to further knowledge, fostering the Constitutional purpose of the law “to advance the...

At CGLA, we mitigate the criminal records barrier by employing an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together teams of lawyers and social workers to comprehensively support client goals

Est. 1979. Serves a membership of more than 200 theaters, a rich and varied theater community ranging from storefront, non-union theaters with budgets under $10,000 to major cultural centers with multi-million dollar shows. No other theater service organization in the country has such a diverse theater membership.

Legal Aid is free representation in civil legal matters for clients who lack the resources to hire an attorney on their own. Legal Aid Chicago provides free legal assistance in civil cases to people living in Chicago and suburban Cook County

The theater community has long whispered about, laughed about and written about harassment in its ranks with tales of the casting couch and out of control stars. It is past time we stopped encouraging or ignoring abusive behavior and publicly recognize the existence of sexual discrimination and harassment, and gender-based violence within our community. It is time to take positive steps to end it.

Case Arts Law LLC provides sophisticated legal representation to fine arts clients in a wide range of legal matters, including labor and employment, contract, and litigation matters. The firm’s founder and principal, Kevin Case, has a unique combination of legal experience, superior credentials as an attorney, and a background as a classical musician that makes him particularly qualified to understand the needs of artists and musicians. Unlike many entertainment law firms that are focused on finding the next pop star, Case Arts Law LLC is dedicated to representing working musicians and...

We are a national practice focusing on Immigration & Nationality Law. We are certified by the State of Illinois and Indiana as a Women and Minority Business. While our practice within Immigration Law is intentionally diverse, the focus is on our clients’ needs in Business Immigration, including E visas, H-1B, J-1, O-1, Q-1 and other non-immigrant Visa Petitions. We also concentrate in Labor Certification, Permanent Residence, Family Immigration, Deportation Defense, and Asylum matters. As a matter of course, we service our clients using our immigration expertise; but perhaps as...

Chicago Dramatists (CD) nurtures playwrights of all levels with the space, resources, and collaborators needed to realize new work and thrive as artists.

Est. 1992, WTA is a union of theatre artists (female and male) and theatre organizations which support women, helping to promote leadership and provide opportunity within the theatre community. Alliance members are encouraged to share their advice, knowledge and expertise in the hopes of creating an environment of mutual support and unity in which women's theatre can flourish. WTA works to build a unified voice so that we can more effectively be advocates for women in theatre, publicize and promote our members and increase positive public awareness of our goals.