Recording Academy Finally Hires In-House Legal Counsel
Jennifer Jones has joined the Recording Academy as executive vice president of legal affairs. This caps a long search for in-house counsel.
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Recording Academy Finally Hires In-House Legal Counsel
Jennifer Jones worked as an attorney at Proskauer Rose LLP for 17 years. The Recording Academy was one of her top clients.
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Recording Academy Paid More Than a Third of Its $7M Legal Fees to Outside Counsel in 2018
Courtesy of The Recording Academy Firms Greenberg Traurig and Proskauer Rose alone were paid more than $2.5 million, according to the nonprofit’s IRS filing for the 2019 fiscal year. The Recording Academy paid $4,522,077 in legal expenditures from August 2018 to July 2019, according to the nonprofit’s most recent 990 filing with the IRS -- with 65.6% of that total going to two outside law firms accused by former chairman/CEO Deborah Dugan of receiving “exorbitant” fees. The academy has...
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