FIRM OVERVIEW:
The Floyd Law Office is a boutique law firm focusing its practice on the areas of entertainment law, intellectual property, general business matters. The firm represents a broad spectrum of clients, from world renowned singer-songwriters, video production companies, syndicated radio programs, talent agencies, music charts, financial institutions, trucking companies, construction co
mpanies, entrepreneurs and other individuals and entities. Our clients value expert, custom-tailored counsel and the ability to achieve a desired end result. We pride ourselves on providing practical, reasoned advice, achieving expeditious and economic results, and maintaining a fair but firm approach in all legal matters. ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHY:
Chuck Allen Floyd is an Oklahoma native whose life and career has woven back and forth between Corporate Law (both as a corporate defense attorney and start-up business owner) and the Music Business (as a staff-writer on Nashville's Music Row, popular Texas Red Dirt performer, and Producer). While attending The University of Oklahoma College of Law, Chuck was President of the Board of Advocates, twice President of The Federalist Society, Student Delegate to The Law School Ethics Committee, was awarded the American Jurisprudence Award for Civil Procedure II, and a member of the National Moot Court Appellate Advocacy Team. He was also chosen to serve as the law school’s delegate to conferences on Antitrust at the University of Chicago and the evolving role of government at Harvard University. In music, Chuck has worked as a staff songwriter at country music icon Clint Black’s Blacktop Music Group and holds the distinction of being the only person to win the Billboard Magazine World Songwriting Contest two years in a row. His song, “The Talent Requires” (performed by James Lann) was not only #1 on both the Texas Music Chart and Texas Regional Radio Report; it was among the ten most played songs on Texas radio in 2010. As a performer, Chuck has played virtually every venue, reputable and otherwise, in the “Texas Red Dirt” circuit and, beyond that, from New England to “Old” England, sharing the stage with a list of writers and performers that includes Guy Clark, Dweezil Zappa, Dean Dillon, Leeanne Womack, Blake Shelton, Montgomery Gentry, Randy Rogers, Mel McDaniel and many, many more. A popular guest speaker also, Chuck has been a panelist on many music industry panels and has served as a guest speaker for Nashville Songwriter Association International (NSAI) chapters across the country. Floyd’s broad experience in both the legal and “hands on” business world brings his clients a highly unique perspective. It is one thing to study publishing contracts as a concept in musty books; quite another to negotiate, sign, and live with the consequences of the contract as a creator of intellectual property. Similarly, it is one thing to know the steps to creating a corporate entity and structure and another to have created businesses and run them successfully. After much travel, Chuck now lives happily in Conroe, TX with his wife Chelsa and son, Augustus.
