MEET ATTORNEY ASHLEY
Ashley Hollan is a multijurisdictional entertainment and recreation attorney and intermedia storyteller.
Ashley has been a part of legal and production teams crafting groundbreaking live event, movie, music, virtual and augmented reality, advertising and visual art content and charting new courses in technology, immersive experiences and plant medicine. She consults on entertainment, media, recreation, plant medicine, and tech business and law matters and on civil rights and privacy issues and policies. Her projects and those of her awesome clients have been featured at international music and film festivals, on major streaming platforms, in renowned museums and leading emerging tech initiatives.​
She earned her BA in Public Policy and Visual Art/Art History at Duke University, attended law school at the University of Denver and graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art (now Willamette University) with her MFA in Visual Studies and MA in Critical Studies. She also completed Music Business MBA coursework with Berklee College of Music/SNHU, studied art with SACI Italy and studied ecology in Costa Rica with the Duke Talent Identification Program. She currently serves as a Visiting Professor of Arts Administration at Elon University.
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Ashley has served as General Counsel and Vice President for multiple private companies in media, recreation and plant medicine. including Sensi Media. She founded an entertainment and litigation law firm serving Atlanta and Nashville before joining Live Nation, where she served as an Artist Rights Consultant and then as Associate Counsel supporting the Legal, Productions, and Media and Sponsorship divisions on projects with A-List artists and top international brands. She also previously worked as a Litigation Project Attorney for King & Spalding, LLP, a trademark Associate for McCoy Russell, LLP and as Advertising Policy Counsel and Senior Associate for Beacon Hill Legal counseling international Adtech clients.
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She has served as a leader and volunteer member with the American Bar Association, Tennessee Volunteer Lawyers and Professionals for the Arts, Georgia Lawyers for the Arts, Triangle Artworks and The Recording Academy, among other legal, nonprofit and industry organizations. ​In 2024, she founded Make / Believe Law LLC to offer her 20 years of expertise in entertainment and recreation business and law to serve her brilliant, creative clients making impacts around the world.
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Ashley has been invited to speak and produce panels at myriad universities including Emory, Lewis & Clark. University of Denver, Pacific Northwest College of Art, John Marshall School of Law and Elon University; at entertainment, academic, legal, and business conferences including Americanafest, the National Association of Record Industry Professionals, the Country Music Association, Bronze Lens Film Festival, the Georgia Bar Association and the San Diego Bar Association. Her writing has been published in formal bar association periodicals, academic commentaries, in pop culture publications and around immersive art spaces. She is licensed to practice law in Tennessee and Georgia, USA.