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Rachel Stilwell Named to Billboard Magazine’s 2023 Top Music Lawyers List

Billboard Magazine has named Rachel Stilwell, founder of Stilwell Law, to its 2023 Top Music Lawyers list. This is the fifth consecutive year that Rachel has been included on this prestigious roster.

Billboard's 2023 Top Music Lawyers list honors prominent music attorneys from throughout the United States.  Stilwell is among only a handful of attorneys from small law firms named to this year's list.

Stilwell is active on the Recording Academy's Los Angeles Chapter's Advocacy Committee. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, where she teaches Music Law.

Stilwell also serves on the Board of Directors...

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Rachel quoted in Billboard about public radio’s growing role in music discovery

PUBLIC RADIO'S WINNING STRATEGY: MUSIC DICOVERY

By Elias Leight

"A handful of public radio stations dedicated to playing new singles have enjoyed notable ratings bumps in recent years."

“As consolidated commercial radio conglomerates have sacrificed localism and diverse playlists in the interest of severely slashing jobs in recent years, it is no surprise that music listeners are turning to high-quality and diverse public radio alternatives,” says Rachel Stilwell, a music and media attorney who represents music industry coalitions before the Federal Communications Commission.  

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Rachel Leads GRAMMY “District Advocate” Meetings in New Mexico

On October 6, members of the Recording Academy met members of Congress in 200+ congressional districts nationwide to advocate on behalf of music creators. Having recruited a dozen Recording Academy members from New Mexico, Rachel flew to the "Land of Enchantment" and gathered these accomplished music creators for meetings with the staffs of U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján and three members of the House of Representatives.

All photos by Curtis McElhinney. @curtisvision

Off to ABQ!

Our meeting with Senator Luján's staff was hosted at the Kitchen Sink Recording Studio in Santa Fe. Thank you to the Kitchen Sink's Jono Manson and Tim Schmoyer for...

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Radio Ink: “musicFirst Defends Small Market Radio in FCC Comments”

...musicFIRST wants the FCC to preserve what little competition remains between owners of AM/FM stations at local market levels:

“AM/FM radio station owners also all compete in intergroup competition with satellite radio and streaming audio platforms for audience and revenue. We also respectfully request that Congress be advised that smaller AM/FM cluster ers must and do compete with both larger AM/FM clusters locally as well as streaming and satellite-based audio providers for audience and revenue. We, as members of the music community who provide much of the content used by all audio platforms to generate audience and revenue, care about the well-being of all AM/FM radio stations. We are concerned about the impacts of potential...

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