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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Jennifer Jones has joined the Recording Academy as executive vice president of legal affairs. This caps a long search for in-house counsel.
Jennifer Jones worked as an attorney at Proskauer Rose LLP for 17 years. The Recording Academy was one of her top clients.
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 been criticized for continuing to pay millions to outside law firms when it could hire in-house cou...