Lee Knife is a New York-based entertainment attorney who has practiced almost exclusively in the music business for better part of the last 15 years. Over the last ten years, he has served as a Business & Legal Affairs Executive at several major record companies. In addition, as a self-confessed tech junkie, he has either worked at or provided consulting services to several internet-based, new-media companies, as well as having written equipment reviews for Guitar and Guitar World Magazines and the Guitar.com website. Before going “in house” with record companies, he started his legal career as an associate attorney at several small law firms where he represented musical instrument manufacturers, individual artists, and small record and production companies, drafting agreements, handling copyright and trademark matters, and also handling all aspects of civil litigation. A graduate of St. John’s University and Brooklyn Law School, he is admitted to practice law in both the State of New York and New Jersey.

He spends a good deal of his free time dabbling in his “personal studio,” which is outfitted with and ever-changing battery of digital recording gear and software. When not enveloped in recording, he spends his free time with his wife and two children or, if weather permits, riding one of his motorcycles.