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ABOUT OUR FIRM
We are a highly energetic, entrepreneurial and client-centered attorney firm focused on extraordinary client results and the execution of long-term client goals. We are valued for our strong legal and business skill sets, personal, client oriented style, the ability to lead a diverse range of successful legal and business projects, and our use of creative, efficient and technology-based process solutions. |
Leon's Resume (pdf) >
About our Of Counsel
Affiliation to Chester
Willcox & Saxbe, LLP >
Our core strengths include: Superior Client Relations,
Innovative and Entrepreneurial Client and Business Solutions, Efficiency Through Technology and Creative Strategies, and the ability to provide efficient Legal Project Management Under Deadlines and for
reasonable fees.
Our mission is to combine superior legal services with
first class client relations utilizing entrepreneurial and creative methods and processes that meet the needs of today’s businesses and economic climate. We strive to allow our clients the benefits of a full-service law firm while maintaining the intimacy, personal attention, and fee structure of a small firm through
our strategic “of counsel” relationship with a larger law firm, which allows our clients access to the larger firm’s litigation and transactional practice group’s resources. Above all, we work tirelessly to provide these services at reasonable fees.
OUR BACKGROUND
The Law Offices of Leon David Bass was established in 1998 to practice in the areas of corporate and business law, entertainment and music law, contracts, intellectual property including copyright and trademark, Internet and computer law, real estate, and civil litigation, Leon Bass is of Counsel to Chester Willcox & Saxbe, LLP, a forty attorney firm located in Columbus, Ohio.
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REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
Representative clients include small to large businesses in various industries with a concentration of clients in the music, entertainment, real estate, and construction industries including concert venues, record labels, publishing companies, booking agents, managers, artists, film producers, construction companies, real estate developers, and condominium associations. Clients have included:
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General Businesses: AMP American Municipal Power; The Columbus Clippers baseball team, Stillwater Asset Management Fund (large New York hedge fund), Innovative Beverage Group, Pagetech, Ltd, Aero 313, Cumberland Trail Condominium Association, Yearling Green Apartments, Stone Creek Condominium Association, Real Living, Inc., Able Roofing, Parking Solutions, Inc, and Hull Pottery Association, and Aqua Immersion Dive 'N Travel Center
- National Bands and National Tours, & Festivals:
John Kadlecik (guitar
player and singer for the
John K Band and national act
Furthur, consisting of
Bob Weir and Phil Lesh
of the Grateful Dead),
Quiet Riot,
Dark Star Orchestra,
Night Ranger,
Fatty Koo,
The All Good Festival,
Rock Never Stops (nationwide tour
featuring
Quiet Riot, Ted Nugent,
Slaughter and Night
Ranger),
The Azoic,
The Direct In Festival and
Conference, and Columbus Community Festival (Comfest)
- Record Labels:
Harmonized Records,
Nilaihah Records,
Desert Dreams Productions,
and
Bare Metal Records
REPRESENTATIVE CASES
- Successful defense of trademark infringement and United States Patent and Trademark (USPTO) opposition proceedings brought by large corporation in federal district court (Texas) against local business client. Obtained judgment in favor of client invalidating Plaintiff’s long owned and well known industry specific registered trademark, receiving national trade press
- Successfully obtained dismissal in defense of multi-million dollar breach of concert promotion agreement for US national tour for Quiet Riot, Ted Nugent, Night Ranger, and Slaughter
- Successfully defended multiple law suits for copyright infringement and breach of contract by national recording artist against our record label client
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Successfully represented a large concert venue in a civil fraud case/breach of contract case
- Successfully represented a national beverage distributor
and manufacturer in a trademark action in federal
court against competitor manufacturer
- Represented a condominium association against a developer for breach of agreements and statutory violation
Leon Bass has also worked with (in various capacities)
Ohio Attorney General,
Dean Nancy Rogers (Ohio State University College of Law),
Rhino Records, Legal and Business Affairs,
Famous Music Publishing Company, Legal Affairs, Los Angeles (a
former subsidiary of Viacom/Paramount Pictures/MTV,VHI/CBS and now
Sony), MCI WorldCom Advanced Networks, Hilliard, OH, Summers, Anthony & Vargas, Columbus, OH, Whee
3 Freedom Festival, and the
Columbus Community Festival (Comfest)
In addition, Leon Bass is also the Founder of
the Greater Columbus Music Awards and founder of a personal management company for recording artists, and a co-found of
Columbus Music in the Round. He also was an instructor of First Aid, CPR, water safety and swimming, a production assistant at
PromoWest Productions; a music coordinator for religious school.
Mr. Bass has been a member of the Recording Academy, American Bar Association (ABA), the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA), the Columbus Bar Association (CBA), and the Capital Square Rotary Club. Mr. Bass
has been served on the OSBA Sports and Entertainment law committee, and
the ABA Business Law Section, Intellectual Property Section, and Sports and Entertainment Law Section. Mr. Bass is also a member of the
Columbus Bar Association's Professional Ethics Commitee.
In his free time he is an amateur Underwater
Photographer (see
TideEyePhoto.com). plays guitar and mandolin in
two bluegrass/rock band,
Cowboy Hillbilly
Hippy Folk and Grassinine, and he is
the past president of the
Capitol Square Rotary Club, through which he has traveled to Kenya, Africa to assist an orphanage, produced
five charity concerts, and assisted in a plethora of other community and international service projects and charity events.
EDUCATION
The Ohio State University College of Law
Columbus, OH | Juris Doctor | May 1998
President: Sports and Entertainment Law Association
Member: Delta Theta Phi
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan | Bachelor of Arts | May
1995
Major: Social Science
Minor: Psychology
Additional Coursework: Business
Honors: Dean's List; Golden Key National Honor Society
For more info, see Leon's
Resume (pdf) >.