Stephanie Iken, Attorney at Law

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  • The Beatles and Bad Contracts

    The Beatles’ financial conflicts did not begin with a single lawsuit or end with the band’s breakup. They developed through a series of contracts, management decisions, and accounting practices that locked control away from the artists themselves. Those decisions created royalty disputes that extended well beyond the band’s breakup. Allen Klein played a central role…

  • Paul McCartney went to court to protect the Beatles

    Paul McCartney’s 1970 lawsuit against the other Beatles remains one of the most misunderstood moments in the band’s history. It is often described as betrayal or abandonment. From a legal perspective, it reads very differently. The lawsuit functioned as an attempt to stop further harm at a moment when informal solutions had already failed. As…