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Law Practice

May 3, 2014

Manatt lawyers journey to Kenya to educate local musicians

Two veteran music attorneys traveled some 10,000 miles to the slums of Kenya to educate local artists on legal issues, but their eight months of research into local laws could not have prepared them for what they experienced.


By Tim McGrath


Special to the Daily Journal


Veteran music attorneys Charles J. Biederman and Michael Rexford of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP journeyed 10,000 miles to the slums of Kenya to educate local artists on legal issues, but their eight months of research into local laws could not have prepared them for what they experienced, they say.


An area slightly smaller than New York's Central Park, Kenya's Kibera, part of Nairobi,...

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