Mr. Crownover is personal counsel to various entertainment, tech, media, and sports franchise executives and athletes. His firm represents some of the hottest songwriters, publishers, and producers in Nashville. The firm’s producer clients have sold in excess of 50 million records and the songwriter clients have sold in excess of 200 million records, including songwriter/publisher Craig Wiseman, who is a three-time ASCAP Songwriter of the Year and recently named by NSAI as Songwriter of the Decade. The firm serves as outsourced in-house counsel for Big Loud Shirt Publishing which Billboard magazine recently recognized as one of the nation’s top ten publishing companies based on radio airplay. Big Loud Bucks Worldwide Publishing Administration collects 100% worldwide of all of the Big Loud Shirt catalog of songs as well as other independent publishers. Together both companies have more than 3,000 active copyrights and the firm handles all business strategy, form drafts, complex negotiations, audits, foreign subpublishing deals, settlements, and licensing related to those copyrights on a daily basis. Mr. Crownover has been the legal counsel for the Southern Region of the T.J. Martell Foundation since 1996 and in 2010 and 2001 presides as the President of the Foundation. He was chosen as an Entertainment and Sports “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics publication, Mid South Super Lawyers in 2007, 2008, and 2009. In 2006, he was the Chair of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Entertainment and Sports Law Section. He is a former adjunct professor of entertainment law at the Curb Music Business School at Belmont University in Nashville. Prior to forming Crownover, Tisinger, P.C., he was a former clerk and associate at Zumwalt, Almon & Hayes in the mid 90’s, CEO of a “dot bomb,” bar review lecturer, and sold his first law practice to Hall, Booth, Smith and Slover, P.C in 2002 to open their Nashville office. During law school, he founded and was the first president of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society at the University of Tennessee College of Law, and was an academic All-SEC shortstop for Auburn University prior to attending and graduating from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1994.

 

Intellectual property, corporate set-up,  funding and sales, employment law,  IT, software licensing, franchising, trademark, contracts, litigation, general business and estate planning and protection are the focuses of Mr. Crownover’s practice.

 

Bar Admissions:
United States Federal Court, Middle District for the State of Tennessee, 1996-present.

Davidson County, Tennessee Circuit and Chancery Courts, 1994-present.

Metropolitan Nashville, General Sessions Court, 1994-present.

Coffee County, Tennessee Circuit and Chancery Courts, 1995-present.

Williamson County, Tennessee, Chancery Court, 1996-present.

Lawrence County, Tennessee, Chancery Court, 2001-present.

Wilson County, Tennessee, Chancery Court, 2003-present.

 

Teaching Positions:
Lawyer/Student Mentor for Center for Entrepreneurship, Belmont University, 2008—present.

Adjunct Professor, Belmont University, Curb School of Music Business, Entertainment Law 2001-2002.

Bar Review Lecturer, West Publishing Company/West Bar Review, 1996-97, (detailed lectures on “Passing the Tennessee Essay Portion of the Tennessee Bar Exam”).