Helen Yu | Yu Leseberg Los Angeles Entertainment Lawyer

The Yu Leseberg law firm is a diversified entertainment law firm serving music, film, and television clients. Principal Helen Yu founded the firm in 2000 and has since added a number of capable associates and staff members, including:

Ryan Powers, member, California State Bar Association. Mr. Powers is an intellectual property law expert and graduate of Southwestern Law School.
Nichole Chapman, member, California State Bar Association. A magna cum laude graduate of Thomas Jefferson School of Law (San Diego), Ms. Chapman covers entertainment, media, and intellectual property law.

Yu Leseberg counsels well known musicians and talent, as well emerging stars alike on a wide range of legal matters. The firm’s core areas of practice include:

Intellectual property protection
Brand marketing
Use and abuse of new technologies by third parties
Recovering Copyright Assets - including living heirs of musicians
Business strategy
Music Licensing
Domestic and Worldwide Music Distribution
Executive Representation

Yu Leseberg is among the most prolific firms practicing music law in the United States. In 2014, for instance, the Yu Leseberg firm and Helen Yu negotiated more Billboard Hot 100 and
Hot R & B 100 singles than any other Hollywood firm.

Yu Leseberg has been involved with several high-profile legal actions in recent years. In the mid-2000s, Helen Yu and her team helped uncover financial wrongdoing against the Black Eyed Peas’ and business associates by their former business manager and accountant, resulting in an audit revealing the accountant/business manager misreported the group’s touring and other  income along with other financial improprieties.

Prior to founding Yu Leseberg, Ms. Yu held several associate legal and non-legal positions in the music industry, gaining valuable insights in the process. Past employers include Virgin Records America and Sony Pictures Entertainment. During law school, she interned at Motown Records and public television, KCET.  While still a teen, she  interned at Enigma Records, one of the most influential 1980s alternative scene record labels.

Ms. Yu is a graduate of Whittier College  (J.D., with honors, 1993) and California State University - Northridge (bachelor’s, speech communication).

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Attorney	Yu Leseberg	Los Angeles, CA	Present

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
Whittier Law School	J.D.	Law School	1993
California St University Northridge	Bachelors		N/A

State / Court	Date
California	1995

• Member | California State Bar Association

• Yu Leseberg negotiated and lawyered more charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R & B 100 than any other law firm in the entertainment industry.

• Billboard: http://www.scoopmarketing.com/2012/08/billboard-qa-with-music-biz-attorney-helen-yu/  
  Hollywood Reporter: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/legal-fight-t-rex-songs-588429

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Verified Credentials	Date Verified
(1995) Licensed as Attorney in California. Verified with California Bar Association.	February 01, 2019

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I Want Your Job: Music Lawyer, Helen Yu Leseberg  (2019-02-05 15:31:27)
Helen Yu Leseberg describes herself first and foremost as an advocate. As the found of her own entertainment law firm, Yu Leseberg, her priority is to serve and protect the legal well-being of “artists, songwriters, producers, and creative talent in the entertainment industry.” If anyone knows how difficult it might be to get artists to take care of and be familiar with their own legal rights, it’s Helen, who works at explaining high-level, analytic concepts to some of the most creative and non-linear artists currently working.

Yu Leseberg Dominates Charts  (2019-02-05 15:40:44)
31 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 & Billboard R & B Hot 100 in 2014! 

HELEN YU: PRINCIPAL, YU LESEBERG; MANAGING MEMBER, NORTH HUDSON MUSIC  (2019-02-05 15:42:38)
An authority on entertainment business strategies, lawyer Helen Yu is a firm believer in building a strong team with managers, business advisors and others to assist musicians, songwriters and producers.  When she sees a wrong being committed – as occurred when the Black Eyed Peas’ corporation was suspended – she makes it her goal to set a situation straight.

Yu Leseberg Client Keith Harris Signs to Universal Music Publishing  (2019-02-05 16:03:18)
Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) today announced the signing of an exclusive publishing agreement with Yu Leseberg client Keith Harris, GRAMMY and Juno-winning writer/producer. The publishing deal encompasses Keith's entire catalogue, including the Black Eyed Peas "Imma Be" which hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart this week and is No. 1 on the iTunes singles charts. Through the agreement, UMPG immediately represents Harris' publishing rights for the US and Canada and will represent Harris' world-wide publishing in July 2010, upon completion of his deal with EMI Music Publishing.

Congratulations to Keith Harris  (2019-02-05 16:04:44)
This is especially true for our songwriter/producer client Keith Harris, who wrote two (2) Billboard Hot 100 Top 5 songs that have dominated the charts over the past six months, for the über hot Black Eyed Peas. The first is "Meet Me Halfway," which Billboard commended for its "...funk guitar, hand claps and distorted pulses." The Billboard Hot 100 #1 song, "Imma Be," praised as "a pounding, assertive club thumper," is a hip-hop reflective, pop credible song; proof positive that the Peas still possess their edge. ASCAP recently acknowledged Keith's participation in the song with a "#1 Plaque" presented for his songwriting contributions.