Joel Tashkoff

Joel is an entertainment lawyer at NZ’s leading entertainment law firm Dominion Law. His specialty lies in the music industry (with some modelling industry experience thrown in the mix), and his practice includes a strong focus on contractual issues surrounding music rights, publishing, licensing, producer deals, management agreements, and recording contracts. Joel’s clients include platinum selling artists and Grammy winners actively working abroad, local youngsters just starting out, and everything in between. Whether you’re a manager, artist, band, label, engineer or producer, Joel’s aim is to empower you to make the most informed decisions you can for your career through advice that is thorough, yet easy to understand and relatable.

When not advising clients, Joel (under the name ‘choicevaughan’) is an award-winning, self-managed artist/music producer and composer. Joel’s self-released albums boast millions of streams, and his recent work in both composing the score for the TVNZ series “The Panthers” and producing its associated soundtrack each culminated in multiple award nominations. Joel’s unique combination of experiences gives him a ground-level understanding and appreciation of the issues faced by artists, managers, and producers in today’s ever-changing music landscape.

Make sure to indicate whether you’d like your session to focus on general legal advice in Joel’s capacity as a lawyer, or if you’d rather Joel wear his producer/artist/composer hat for the session instead.

*Please note the below

• Mentoring sessions are 30 mins only

• The legal mentoring sessions are for the purposes of providing general guidance on legal issues applicable to the music industry.

• MMF members cannot ask the lawyer to look over and make comments or mark ups on contracts during the session, but are encouraged to separately engage the services of a legal professional prior to proceeding with any specific legal matters.

Dan Chisholm

Dan is a specialist music lawyer, acting for prominent musicians, managers and music entities in New Zealand and Australia. Prior to his legal career, Dan resided in Australia and played music professionally for the band BONJAH, touring with artists such as The Who, Counting Crows and The Cranberries.  Since returning to New Zealand, Dan has continued to play music and is currently part of the Christchurch musical group, Volts. 

Dan is qualified to practice in both New Zealand and Australia and advises on a range of music related agreements, including songwriter, recording, management, producer, publishing, synchronisation, distribution and licensing agreements. 

Dan’s objective is to provide his clients with expert knowledge and advice so that they can make the right choices with their creative material.  Dan writes regular legal articles for NZ Musician magazine, and has undertaken guest lectures at Otago University and CPIT.

*Please note the below

• Legal mentoring sessions are 30 mins only

• The legal mentoring sessions are for the purposes of providing general guidance on legal issues applicable to the music industry. We recommend you engage the services of a legal professional prior to proceeding with any specific legal matters.

• MMF members cannot ask the lawyer to look over and make comments or mark ups on contracts

• All contact with the lawyer is to be done via the MMF. No unsolicited emails are allowed