If it weren’t for Akerman’s legal acumen, a young rap artist named Logic might still be a YouTube star instead of a real one with a top four debut album on the Billboard 200 and a second one coming out this month.
“It was a pretty serious situation in that we had a young rap artist who had a disc jockey trying to get an injunction so that his album would never be released,” said West Palm Beach attorney Mark D. Passler, co-chair of the firm’s intellectual property practice group. “He didn’t know if his career would get started.”
