After years of scrutiny for spending millions of dollars on outside legal counsel, the Recording Academy has begun a search for an in-house general counsel
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It has been a source of controversy in recent years that a nonprofit organization the academy's size and stature didn’t have an in-house general counsel and instead paid high yearly fees to outside law firms. The academy paid high fees to two law firms in particular -- Greenberg Traurig, wherewas, until Dec.
“And not only that, it should be the purview of the CEO to hire or fire the general counsel. I’ve sat on maybe 15 boards over the last 25 years. Not once have I seen a president, executive director or CEO have to check in with a board or an executive committee member to say, “Is it OK if I do this?” The board’s job is oversight. That’s it. I really hope that you will think carefully about bringing in someone relatively soon. Most organizations moved toward this over a decade ago.
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