Mary Lauren Teague is Assistant Professor of Music Business at Belmont University and Owner of Dotted i Entertainment, LLC, where she manages and advises Nashville creatives. Previously a full-time entertainment attorney at Loeb & Loeb, LLP and currently Of Counsel, she brings her experiences of representing recording artists, legacy artists, songwriters, publishing companies, producers, and other entertainment and media companies to the table in her professor, manager, advisor, and attorney capacities in order to provide exceptional service to her students and clients. Mary Lauren serves as a Board Member of SOURCE (Nashville’s longest running organization for women in the music business) and as Chair of the Troubadour Society Advisory Committee at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. She has been honored by the Nashville Business Journal as one of Nashville’s “Top 40 Under 40” and named to the “Up Next” list of emerging leaders in entertainment law in Variety’s “Legal Impact Report”. In her free time, Mary Lauren loves to spend time outdoors with her husband, Daniel, daughter, Mary Fran, and her furry child, a rescued labradoodle named Ellie.