The Fruitful Firm
is a law firm and talent management agency that helps entertainers, creators, athletes, public figures, and entrepreneurs.
The firm for when you want more than most.
Pursuing your goals can be risky and stressful.
Uncertainty or Confusion
Bad Deals or Contract Disputes
Lack or Loss of Control
Missed or Too Few Opportunities
Loss of Money or Assets
Whether you're an entertainer, creator, athlete, public figure, or entrepreneur, without a law firm or talent management agency you'll have to worry about and deal with
The Fruitful Firm understands and is here to help you.
The Fruitful Firm helps to create success and protect entertainers, creators, athletes, public figures, and select entrepreneurs. As a firm client we'll work to help you
You'll get honest and objective feedback and the info you need so that you'll understand your likely potential issues, risks, and options.
Understand Your Situation
With our firm's strong support, expert advice and help planning, you'll be able to maximize your chances of successfully achieving your goals.
Boost Your Odds
With us looking out for you, you'll eliminate your fears and worries so you can focus on more important things and what matters most to you.
Eliminate Your Stress
Meet The Fruitful Firm's Founder Zach Scott Gainous
Zach Scott Gainous is the managing attorney, principal talent manager, and founder of The Fruitful Firm.
Zach has nearly 20 years of experience working in the music, entertainment, and media industries in both creative and business aspects helping entertainers, creators, athletes, public figures, and entrepreneurs.
Zach founded The Fruitful Firm to help clients like you who need advice and representation so that you'll understand your options, have the best chances of success, and know you're protected.
"When I was first starting out and hired Zach's firm I was nervous because I didn't really know anything and I'd never worked with a lawyer before. I quickly realized that I'd made the right decision. Zach was so caring, honest, and knowledgeable that it put my mind at ease. He really made everything so simple and helped me to protect myself when I was probably at my weakest."
"So thankful to have found The Fruitful Firm's Zach Gainous to be my guide in my first NIL and copyright and trademark contract. He's so on top of things, great to work with, and made confusing things easy to understand. Zach made key changes, clarified details, and definitely negotiated a better deal. I have more things coming and I'll definitely be hiring his firm again."
"By hiring Zach and The Fruitful Firm I was able to more than double my music and entertainment industry earnings and take advantage of many more opportunities. He really helped me to evaluate and understand where I was lacking in my career and marketing plans, and helped me take positive steps and actions to get better and grow more than I ever thought I could or would."
What The Fruitful Firm's Clients Say
You Can Become a Client of The Fruitful Firm in 3 Easy Steps...
1. Tell Us What You're Looking For
Complete your online client intake forms and schedule your free consultation.
2. Attend Your Free Consultation
Attend your free consultation with the firm and discuss your goals, concerns, and issues.
3. Sign Your Fee Agreement
Read and sign your fee agreement to start working together.
Schedule Your Free Consultation and Become a Client by completing the form below!
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Still have some questions about The Fruitful Firm?
As a law firm, our fees are based on the value we bring and the time we spend working for you. You'll pay us either a minimum flat fee or an hourly fee, or a small percentage of the money you earn as a result of the work we do for you. We try to charge flat fees for as many things as possible to be transparent about pricing and provide a greater value to you. When we can't do flat fees, we charge an hourly fee currently capped at $275.00 per hour for new clients. Our flat fees and hourly rates start at a minimum of one billable hour per month. Specific cost and pricing details will be provided after your consultation and included in your attorney-client engagement letter agreement.
As a talent management agency, we're paid on commission, usually 10% to 20% of your career earnings. We take a smaller commission the more you earn during the time we manage you, plus a lower percentage commission (under 10%) for a short time period after the talent management relationship ends for the work we did prior to the end of our management contract. We must evaluate each potential management client and determine if their current and future potential career earnings meet a minimum amount to enable the firm to take you on as a management client.
In addition, we charge you for any necessary travel and hotel costs if needed to serve you. Other costs to consider could be court costs, filing fees, and any other outside expenses charged by others to us on your behalf. We will get prior approval from you for these costs when possible and try to inform you of them as early as possible.
We understand the financial struggles of creative professionals, entertainers, media figures, and entrepreneurs who are just starting out or having difficulties. We attempt to keep our fees and commissions as affordable as possible while still being compensated fairly.
As a law firm, if you cannot afford our minimum flat or hourly fees we offer payment plans when possible. In addition, a lot of our creative and entertainer clients have their legal fees paid for or reimbursed by the label, publisher, etc., that the client's negotiating with as an additional part of their signing advance. Finally, we will in rare occasions take clients on a contingency fee basis, taking instead a small percentage of your earnings from any of your career or business deals or activities we help you with until you can afford to pay the larger amount owed.
As a talent management firm we will sometimes take on clients that are earning less than the required minimum amount if they have the potential in future months or years to earn substantially more.
Payment modifications are assessed on a case by case basis and we'd be happy to discuss options with you if needed.
You might think that you can save money by doing some things yourself. Hiring our firm gives you the knowledge and confidence that you're getting the best advice and representation you can from experienced and professional experts and our resources and connections. In addition, the firm carries insurance for your protection.
If you were to try to handle things yourself, you risk not recognizing costly issues or missing out on opportunities to maximize your earnings potential. In addition you risk paying much more later on to hire our firm to attempt to correct any errors. It is significantly more affordable to hire us early on than to do it yourself and risk needing to hire us later.
We do not pitch, shop, or plug unsolicited songs or music, scripts, books, screenplays, or any other creative works to our current or former clients, as well as any outside publishers, labels, studios, producers, artists, entertainers, etc. We work with talented clients who already have interest or past success in their industry. If you have interest, offers, or past success, we'd be happy to help you.
You might think that you need a large firm to have the best chances for success and protection. After all, bigger is surely better right? The reality is that larger firms will not likely provide you with the best value and are rarely necessary. Not only are larger firms likely to be more expensive and rigid in how much they charge you, but you'll probably notice that they'll be less efficient. Large firms tend to have multiple people unnecessarily doing the same work and aren't as quick to adopt the latest, most efficient technologies, increasing your costs. In addition, in our experience listening to former clients of larger firms, you'll likely be unable to get in touch with your lawyers or managers as often and quickly as you want and will ultimately feel like you are just another name or number on the client list.
We're a boutique firm that is selective about who we work with and the number of clients we take on. While we might be smaller, we do this so that we can give you the personal attention you need, be available when needed, provide customized rates and fees so that you can afford our services, and provide maximum value to you. In the rare event that you need the resources of a larger firm, our firm has relationships with many other firms that we can partner with to supplement our services.
While this is not a typical or common arrangement, it is possible. To do so however requires certain conditions to protect you and the firm, including a written conflict of interest waiver.
The Fruitful Firm is very selective about who we accept as clients, especially when clients want to have dual representation by the firm. Often, because clients don't have an immediate need for both management and a lawyer, the firm will start out as one or the other, most often starting out helping clients as a law firm. We will always discuss with you the possibility and any risks of The Fruitful Firm acting as both your legal counsel and your personal manager if you're interested.
While we help entertainers, creators, athletes, public figures, and entrepreneurs with their careers, businesses and select personal matters, the firm does not handle criminal legal matters for our clients who are accused of a crime. We will gladly refer clients who need a criminal defense lawyer to another firm when necessary. The Fruitful Firm will coordinate with our client's criminal defense lawyers and assist clients to the extent necessary if their potential criminal exposure also impacts their career or businesses.
The Fruitful Firm is named because "fruitful" is the perfect description of the kind of relationship the firm strives to have with its clients, and hopefully clients have with the firm: an abundantly productive, beneficial, or profitable relationship that produces good results.
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Entertainment Contract Law
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Entertainment Law
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Music Law
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Sports Law
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Media Law
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Film & Television Law
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Literary Law
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IP Law Overview
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Copyright Law
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Trademark Law
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Trade Secret Law
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Contract & Commercial Transactions Law
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Music Contract Law
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NIL Deals & Name, Image, Likeness Contract Law
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Entertainment Contract Law
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IP Contract Law
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Domain Name Transfer Contracts
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Corporate & Business Law
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LLC, Partnership, & Corporate Entity Formation & Maintenance
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Business Planning
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Business Recovery & Succession Planning
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Employment Law
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Insurance Law
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Name, Image, Likeness & Publicity Rights Law
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Defamation, Libel, and Slander Law
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Apparel & Fashion Law
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Restaurant & Hospitality Law
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Domain Cybersquatting Law
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Domain Name Transfers & Sales Law
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