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Former federal prosecutor and highly successful television writer Jonathan Shapiro has written a new book titled Lawyers, Liars, and the Art of Storytelling. In the book Shapiro dissects the building blocks of good storytelling and shows just how inseparable storytelling is from the practice of law, as well as just about any other facet of life. Here he is in conversation with LARB legal editor Don Franzen.
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Don Franzen is a lawyer in Beverly Hills specializing in entertainment and business law. He has lectured on entertainment law at the Eastman School of Music, Santa Monica College’s Academy of Entertainment and Technology, the Berklee School of Music in Valencia, Spain, and lectures at UCLA’s Herb Albert School of Music, where he teaches two courses on the law and the music industry. He has published articles on legal issues in newspapers, magazines, and law journals. He serves on the board of the Los Angeles Opera and counts among his clients leading performers in opera, orchestral music, film, and the recording industries. He is the legal affairs editor for Los Angeles Review of Books.
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