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 counsel. During an October roundtable discussion with academy interim president/CEO