TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Brittany Sims on Oct 3, 2014

Music City is crawling with artists struggling to turn their passion into a living. When they run into legal needs, that’s when Thor Urness, a partner of the law firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, steps in. As board chairman at the Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville (ABC), Urness provides free legal services for songwriters, authors, craftspeople and others in need, covering everything from copyright to leasing disputes to financial issues. After 25 years of practicing law, Urness intends to spend even more of his time helping the city’s starving artists. “With the exclusive privileges (lawyers are given), we have an obligation to the community and greater world to help people,” he said. The Tennessean has more.