Janine Small

Janine Small is an entertainment and music industry attorney with over 30 years of experience, licensed in New York and California. She is the founder of the New York-based boutique music and entertainment transactional law firm, Janine Small, PLLC, and serves as Of Counsel to Counsel LLP, a San Francisco firm.

Over the past three decades, including her long tenure as a partner at a leading entertainment firm, she has represented a wide range of world-renowned and developing performers, songwriters, score composers, managers, record producers, labels, entertainment agencies and executives. Her practice focuses on rights-driven transactions, with a particular expertise representing producers and promoters of live events, serving as lead counsel for some of the largest U.S. festivals and live-based interactive experiences.

She has been active with the American Bar Association Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries throughout her career, including a two-year term as Chairperson, and is a frequent panelist and speaker. She also taught a semester-long seminar on music
industry contracts as an adjunct professor at Cardozo School of Law.

Ms. Small currently serves as Co-Legal Community Lead for She is the Music, a non-profit dedicated to advancing women in the music industry, and is a member of Women In Music, Music Managers Forum, IAMP, and AmericanaFest, as well as an advisory board member of FestForums.

She resides in Manhattan and is a mandolin hobbyist with a longstanding connection to the live music community.