An entertainment lawyer explains the finer points of the Lady A lawsuit
changing their name to Lady A in a gesture of support to the Black Lives Matter movement, news broke that they were suing a blues singer, Anita White, who has been using the stage name Lady A for years.We asked Kurt Dahl, an entertainment lawyer and partner at Vancouver’s Murphy & Company firm — who also plays drums and blogs about the intersection of the two at LawyerDrummer.com — to take us inside the case.“I see a fair amount of artist name disputes come across my desk, but they rarely go to trial,” Dahl said. “There needs to be an incredible amount of money at stake in order for these matters to approach litigation, which of course there is here.