A legal practice that safeguards artistic agency, builds legacy, and ensures cultural impact.
Serving artists, individuals, and organizations committed to improving public life.
Mike Quinn is a New York–based attorney.
For more than a decade, he has advised clients looking to build work that goes beyond economic security, shaping projects with cultural, civic, and social impact. His work has been chronicled in books, film, and national publications (Raising Lazarus, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal).
In Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, Quinn represented the only individual before the U.S. Supreme Court, challenging the legal architecture that enabled Purdue and the Sacklers to evade accountability. His briefing advanced a structural critique of how institutional power suppresses individual rights, and the Court’s decision reaffirmed the central place of the individual voice in our legal system.
Named to the inaugural Forbes list of Top 200 Lawyers in America, a recognition of attorneys whose work shapes national conversations and sets new standards within their fields.
Quinn was selected for Cultured Magazine’s Cult 100, honoring individuals who influence and define contemporary culture.
Work that extends the cultural and civic dimensions of the practice.
Produced by Mike Quinn, The Ban is a short documentary by Roisin Agnew examining media censorship in Northern Ireland and the often comic and counterproductive measures taken to control political speech. Colm Tóibín describes it as “an incisive and sharply edited documentary film.”
Quinn has regularly lectured at schools, such as Yale, UT-Austin, and NYU, speaking on artistic agency, cultural contracts, and creative acts as public advocacy. His talks bridge legal structure and cultural meaning, offering students practical strategies for navigating institutions while preserving their social values.
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